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State Labour Service joined International Association of Labour Inspection

The State Labour Service of Ukraine became a member of the International Association of Labour Inspection (IALI). It is the global professional association with more than 100 members worldwide.

Meet the Specialists: Daniela Zampini, Employment creation

Daniela Zampini, the Employment Specialist of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe explains what she does to create more and better jobs, how she works with governments, employers, workers, civil society organizations or municipalities, and...

Meet the Specialists: Magnus Berge, Workers organizations

Magnus Berge, Senior Specialist for Workers' Organizations explains how he supports ILO work with Trade Unions in Central and Eastern Europe. He promotes Trade Unions so that they can work more effectively to improve working conditions of workers...

Technical Note: Draft Law on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts Concerning Simplification of Labour Relations in the Sphere of Small...

Video of the webinar for trade unions

Video of the webinar for employers

Technical recommendations to the ME draft Law "On Occupational Safety and Health of Workers" (version of 16 May 2021)

This is the fourth set of the EU-ILO Project technical recommendations regarding the draft Law "On Occupational Safety and Health of Workers" of the Ministry of Economy (version of 16 May 2021). The purpose of these technical recommendations is to...

ILO Working paper 32

Digital Work in Eastern Europe: Overview of Trends, Outcomes, and Policy Responses

This paper presents the emergence and growth of digital labour markets in Eastern Europe over the period 1999-2019. It presents the profiles of digital workers, their working conditions and discusses how these are shaped by the business models of...

Supporting the alignment of the OSH draft law with key International and EU Labour Standards and best practices

Up-to-date knowledge on labour inspection and OSH – for use by the national stakeholders

In October-December 2020, six officials from the Ministry of Economy and State Labour Service learned more about labour inspection and occupational injury schemes, thought the online training courses of the International Training Centre of the ILO.

Youth stands for declared work

The EU-ILO Project supported the nomination “Best video on undeclared work” within the Ukrainian Students Festival of Social Advertising in September-December 2020. 17 videos were made by the students of several universities of Ukraine. Three videos...

Better knowledge on the international and EU labour standards and best practices

In June-July 2020, the EU-ILO Project held the Summer marathon of online trainings on International and EU Labour standards. Over 500 policy makers, legal experts and social partners took part in each of the six trainings and learned more on...

Confined spaces should become safer for workers

The online seminar "Safety in confined spaces" took place in February 2021. The EU-ILO Project Manager Antonio Santos, together with other leading Ukrainian and international OSH experts, shared best practices on risk assessment and occupational...

Support in ensuring the proper response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The webinars “COVID-19 pandemic: how OSH at workplaces mitigates its consequences” took place in May 2020. Almost 5000 experts (labour inspectors and workers’ and employers’ representatives) got access during the Project’s three webinars to...

Supporting the alignment of the national labour legislation with the International and EU labour standards

ILO/WHO partnership to protect health workers

Healthcare workers urgently need upgraded working conditions, safety and health protection against COVID-19 in Ukraine

Health workers are at the forefront of the global fight against the COVID-19. In Ukraine, however, they face serious challenges in occupational health and safety and working conditions. On 16 April 2021, the ILO and WHO jointly organized a webinar...

International Training Centre of the ILO

New challenges for TVET and skills development - what do you want to learn today?

The importance of learning new skills has never been as evident as in the last year. Almost overnight, all of the global workforce had to admit they faced challenges with their digital skills. We had to switch to new ways of managing work and doing...

Protecting human rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the context of HIV and sexual orientation in Ukraine

Asylum seekers and refugees are entitled to all the rights and fundamental freedoms spelled out in international human rights instruments. This includes the right to protection if they have HIV, TB or identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

COVID-19 and health workers in Ukraine

COVID-19: occupational health and safety for health workers – materials of the WHO and ILO seminar

Download the materials of the seminar where the WHO and ILO Interim Guidance "COVID-19: Occupational health and safety for health workers" was presented.