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Lawyers from the NGO Labor Initiatives helped a worker defend his right to an additional rest day for donating blood. The worker contacted the Legal Clinic after his employer refused to add the additional rest day to his annual leave. The employer based the refusal on changes to blood donation legislation and believed that the […]
Lawyers from the NGO Labor Initiatives helped defend the labour rights and interests of an internally displaced woman working for a supermarket chain. The worker applied to her employer for 90 calendar days of unpaid leave under Part 4 of Article 12 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Organisation of Labour Relations under Martial […]
Lawyers from the NGO Labor Initiatives helped defend the labour rights and interests of a mother on parental leave until her child reaches the age of three. The worker received a notice from her employer about the planned redundancy of her position and her dismissal. The lawyers prepared a substantiated formal submission to the company’s […]
Lawyers from the NGO Labor Initiatives helped defend the labour rights and interests of four private company workers. The workers had repeatedly asked the employer to pay wage arrears for their last two months of work, but their requests were ignored. The Legal Clinic’s lawyers prepared a formal demand to the employer for payment of […]
Lawyers from the NGO Labor Initiatives helped a forwarding company worker recover unpaid wages. The worker contacted the Legal Clinic because the employer had failed to pay his wages for an extended period and had ignored all of his verbal requests. Labor Initiatives lawyers helped prepare a formal demand to the employer for payment of […]
The Pension Fund refused to grant an old-age pension because there was no record of the employer’s contribution payments. The person’s employment periods from 1 July 2000 to 1 January 2004 were not included in the insurance record. Labor Initiatives lawyers helped prepare a claim seeking to have the Pension Fund’s refusal declared unlawful and […]
Lawyers from the NGO Labor Initiatives helped defend the rights and interests of four informally employed women working at a grocery store. One of the workers contacted the Legal Clinic. She and three of her colleagues had been working without formal employment and had not received their wages for the final three months of their […]
Lawyers from Labor Initiatives have secured an important victory before the Supreme Court of Ukraine, reinforcing judicial protection of workers’ rights. The case reached the Supreme Court after the appellate court unlawfully refused to open proceedings, arguing that the dismissed worker had to pay a court fee for an additional claim seeking to invalidate the […]
An internally displaced person who had worked at a chain clothing store sought assistance from the Labour Initiatives legal clinic after facing wage non-payment and informal employment conditions. According to the worker, the employment relationship had not been properly formalized, and during the last three months the employer completely stopped paying wages. After deciding to […]
Legal Clinic Helps Single Mother Recover Delayed Wage Payments After Dismissal LI lawyers assisted a female employee, a single mother, in seeking delayed wage payments and compensation for unused leave following her dismissal. According to the worker, despite her personal appeals to the employer, her requests were ignored. Labour Initiatives lawyers prepared an official appeal […]
LI lawyers assisted in defending the rights of a serviceman who had been mobilized into the Ukrainian Armed Forces. During his military service, the worker decided to resign from his civilian position, which had been preserved for him under Ukrainian law. However, after dismissal, the employer failed to calculate the final payments in full and […]
Lawyers from Labor Initiatives helped defend the labour rights of a service member mobilised into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. While serving, he decided to resign from his primary civilian job. However, during the final settlement, the employer failed to make full payment and ignored the requirement to compensate accumulated leave days. Over the previous […]
