• Aleksyeyenko Oleksandr
    Partner practice

    Labour & Employment

    Launching and implementing investment projects in various sectors of economy in Ukraine in the context of promising developments in the Ukrainian market and an opportunity to get a quick return on investments require considering not only corporate, tax and banking regulations, but also labor and employment regulations, in particular labor safety requirements.
    Structuring business operations in line with labor law requirements will, first of all, secure potential investors against possible problems with state services, the company’s management or the labor collective, and will ensure better performance by employees.
    In this context, it should also be noted that:

    • Procedures for recruiting personnel, executing employment-related documents, managing the actual performance of job duties and dismissing employees are not always easily implemented by employers
    • Special permits need to be obtained to employ foreigners in Ukraine
    • Old labor and employment laws, which have never been updated since Ukraine gained independence, create impediments to the implementation of Western legal standards
    • There are a great many labor safety requirements and problems with obtaining relevant permits from governmental agencies
    • Companies often face employees’ complaints, labor disputes and lawsuits
    • INTEGRITES experts have extensive experience in providing clients with legal advice on various requirements of labor and employment laws and their actual implementation by Ukrainian companies.

    INTEGRITES services in this area include, in particular:

    • Advising on the application of labor and employment law provisions, in particular those governing employment agreement execution and termination procedures, labor and workplace safety regulations, wages and salaries, leaves, specific aspects of regulating relations with certain categories of employees, protection of disabled persons, and other labor and employment law requirements
    • Drafting employment agreements for employees and managers, collective bargaining agreements, as well as internal rules and regulations governing employment relations
    • Conducting due diligence of employment-related documents and labor safety rules and regulations
    • Obtaining employment permits for foreigners, representing clients’ interests in governmental agencies, institutions and organizations in the process of obtaining permits, and representing clients in courts

     

  • Projects. Labor and Employment.

    Advising on the application of labor and employment law provisions, in particular those governing employment agreement execution and termination procedures, labor and workplace safety regulations, wages and salaries, leaves, specific aspects of regulating relations with certain categories of employees, protection of disabled persons, and other labor and employment law requirements.
     

    • Advising on matters relating to the execution and termination of employment agreements, procedures for obtaining employment permits for foreigners, labor and workplace safety regulations, specific aspects of regulating relations with certain categories of employees, protection of disabled persons, and other labor and employment law requirements.
    • Advising on the introduction of incentive schemes, such as share award schemes, share option schemes, monetary incentive schemes, profit sharing incentive schemes, and other flexible incentive schemes.
    • Advising on matters relating to leaves, holidays, additional days-off, maternity/paternity and other leaves, as well as releases from work, and specific regulatory requirements for engaging employees to work during such periods.
    • Advising on labor remuneration, the employer’s bankruptcy procedures, liability for failure to timely pay wages and salaries, and cooperation with the administrator upon the company’s liquidation.
    • Advising on all rules and regulations governing the formation and functioning of collective bodies representing the interests of employees.
    • Advising on the procedure for making changes to the staff list, advising on international business relocation and relations with trade unions. 

    Drafting employment agreements for employees and managers, collective bargaining agreements, as well as internal rules and regulations governing employment relations. 

    • Drafting employment agreements (both standard and individual), employment agreements for directors and members of the collective executive body, as well as job descriptions.
    • Checking the compliance of existing employment-related documents with applicable laws and amending them, if necessary.
    • Drafting documents relating to dismissals and reductions in staff, as well as employment agreement termination-related documents.
    • Drafting, discussing, explaining and registering changes and amendments to collective bargaining agreements, work rules and other internal regulations, as well as corporate management documents that are subject to approval by trade unions

    Conducting due diligence of employment-related documents and labor safety rules and regulations.

    • Conducting due diligence of employment-related documents prior to the acquisition of shares or assets.
    • Conducting due diligence of documents relating to the compliance with safety rules, fire safety and sanitary standards, labor protection standards, and other documents and permits depending on the company’s area of business

    Obtaining employment permits for foreigners, representing clients’ interests in governmental agencies, institutions and organizations in the process of obtaining permits, and representing clients in courts.

    • Obtaining employment permits for foreigners.
    • Representing clients before governmental agencies, institutions and organizations in the process of obtaining permits relating to compliance with safety rules, fire safety and sanitary standards, labor protection standards, and other permits depending on the company’s area of business