On March 14, Labor Initiatives, jointly with the Lviv-based Ukrainian Women Lawyers Association “JurFem” carried out an offline seminar on the legal instruments to fight bullying at work. 15 participants came to the VonaHub space in Lviv, and 236 participants joined the stream on the LI Facebook page. As for now, more than 1,500 people watched the seminar recording.
Recently, publications on legislative regulation of platform companies have appeared in the national information field. Taking into account the lack of information about platform work in Ukrainian and, more crucial, about the drawbacks of such work, Inna Kudinska, a lawyer affiliated with the Solidarity Center and Labor Initiatives, prepared a personal blog at the popular legal resource - Loyer.
On February 28, Labor Initiatives lawyers Nadia Yolkina, Kateryna Shvets, and Alina Muzychenko carried out an online education training about the legal aspects of vacations during wartime streamed on LI social media.
On February 28, George Sandul, LI legal director, co-chaired a second meeting of the Expert Council on Economic and Social Rights functioning under the auspices of the Ombuds Office.
“Unions are essential to allow people to survive, not only in times of peace but also in war times”, George Sandul.
On February 7, 2023, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine concluded that paragraph three, part 2 of Article 22 of the Law of Ukraine No. 463–IX “On the Upper General Secondary Education” of 16 January 2020 does not comply with the Constitution of Ukraine and shall lose its effect from the day of adoption of the decision by the Constitutional Court.
At the end of 2022, the report "Social Rights in Ukraine amid the War,” prepared under the Council of Europe Project "Promoting social human rights as a key factor of sustainable democracy in Ukraine," was officially presented to the public. Labor Initiatives contributed to the Chapter “Labor Rights during the War” in the form of consultations and written proposals included in the final version of the report.
LI labor lawyers Inna Kudinska and George Sandul presented the report on remote work in Ukraine during the ILAW webinar on telework regulation in Europe and Central Asia.
On January 18, George Sandul and Inna Kudinska presented their report on specifics of telework (or remote work) regulation in Ukraine.
Register for the ILAW webinar on the regulation of telework in Europe and Central Asia.
Labor Initiatives presents an art exhibition “Fast. Easy. Dangerous”, free and open to the public at the Small Gallery of the Art Arsenal (Mystetskyi Arsenal) in Kyiv, supported by the Solidarity Center and the Open Society Foundations
International Lawyers Assisting Workers Network (ILAW Network) forwarded a letter to the Chair of Ukraine's Parliament, Chair of Parliamentary Committee for European Integration, and Chair of Parliamentary Committee on Social policy and Veterans Protections, urging to withdraw the problematic 'anti-union' draft law #2681.
