All resources: Ukraine

COVID-19 response

COVID-19 and the world of work: What are the responses of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe?

Central and Eastern Europe managed the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic (spring 2020) relatively well, but the region was heavily hit by the second and third wave in the fall/winter of 2020/21. The lockdowns and the global economic recession led...

WESO Report 2020

What does the new WORLD EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL OUTLOOK: TRENDS 2020 report say about Central and Eastern Europe?

The Ukrainian pension system at crossroads: Key policy messages from the recent ILO report

In 2017, the Ukrainian Government adopted a pension reform that increased the level of pensions in payment but severely restricted future pensions. After three years’ implementation of the reform, it is time to assess the impact of the changes and...

HIV/AIDS at the workplace

Take an HIV test and keep sailing! ILO promotes HIV/AIDS awareness among seafarers

Ukraine remains among the European countries most affected by HIV and AIDS. Every day, fifty people get infected and ten die from AIDS. The epidemic is driven by key populations: partly by people who inject drugs, but the prevailing cause has been...

Future of the Ukrainian Pension System: Adequacy, Coverage and Sustainability

This report conducts an in-depth analysis of the Ukrainian pension system and develops policy options to safeguard the adequate levels of pensions in line with international labour standards, to extend the coverage particularly to the workers in the...

Project Results

Report

Executive Summary - A qualitative study on stigma and discrimination experienced by indigenous peoples living with HIV or having TB at work

Indigenous peoples living with HIV or having TB face double discrimination. Being an LGBT indigenous person adds another layer to this. Barriers to accessing health services, denial of the right to work and discrimination in employment settings are...

Unions in Ukraine join the campaign to end violence and harassment at work

Trade unions in Ukraine have shown strong committment to ending violence and harassment in the world of work.

VCT@WORK in Ukraine’s Maritime Sector

According to estimates, 30 per cent of people living with HIV in Ukraine don’t know their HIV positive status. HIV testing is free and available in AIDS centres, and in many primary medical healthcare centres, as a result of the current health care...

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Lidy from Ukraine

NIS economic experts meeting

The PERC and the ILO-ACTRAV organized on 6-7 November in Tbilisi an annual meeting of the trade union economic experts from the NIS countries. The meeting continues cooperation of trade union professional experts as a part of the PERC coordinated...

Trade unions

ITUC wage campaign steps up efforts to increase wages in the Balkans

In 2017, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) launched a global wage campaign to support trade union action to increase wages. Most of the activities had taken place in Asia, Latin America and Africa so far. In July 2019, ITUC extended...

Occupational safety and health

ILO helps expand mine safety training in the Donetsk region of Ukraine

Undeclared work and labour inspection – distribution materials

Strategic planning of SLS labour inspection activity – training materials

CEELex Central and Eastern European Labour Legislation Database

CEELex is a searchable online database offering information on the national labour laws in Central and Eastern Europe. Based on ILO conventions and more than 25 years of working experience in labour legislation in CEE, the database provides selected...

Promoting Core labour standards and Social Dialogue by effective implementation of the EU Association Agendas in Georgia, Moldova and...

Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are active participants of the EU’s Eastern Partnership programme and have Association Agreements with the EU.

ILO Budapest leaflet

The leaflet describes the mission, geographical focus, resources and interventions offered by the ILO Regional office for Central and Eastern Europe. It enlists its donors and offers testimonies of beneficiaries of the office's interventions.

State Labour Service information system and its modernization

Resolution – 4th sitting of the Project Steering Committee of 1st August 2019