The Government of Ukraine is launching an employment reform, according to which officially registered unemployed who have not been employed for 30 days will be involved in socially useful work, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
“The government is launching a reform of the entire employment sector. In the context of a full-scale war, we need to mobilize all possible resources to defeat the Russian occupiers. This also applies to the organization of work in the rear. The government will today approve a document providing that the officially registered unemployed, who have not been employed for 30 days, will be involved in community service,” Shmyhal said at a government meeting on Tuesday.
According to him, this may be the removal of rubble, the construction of protective structures, landscaping, repair or agricultural work.
“What exactly needs to be done in each particular region will be determined by local authorities. Of course, this work will be paid. The state will pay everyone involved in socially useful work a minimum wage. We are actually eliminating the possibility when people could receive money from the state and refuse the job offer. In wartime conditions, the state does not have the resources for this. Everyone must either fight and defend the Motherland, or work for victory and for the front,” the prime minister emphasized.
Shmyhal also said that the status and unemployment benefits are now lost if a person is abroad for more than 30 days during martial law.
“Our task now is simple and clear – everyone must work to win. To do this, it is necessary to consolidate all possible resources. All these steps to create new jobs, reform the employment sector, grant assistance to businesses is a new economic policy that will help our country survive, win, begin to rapidly restore and restore our state,” he summed up.
According to the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, in the Telegram channel, according to the decisions made, changes were made to the Procedure for organizing public and other temporary works, providing for the specifics of organizing public works under martial law.
In particular, it provides for the priority involvement in public works of registered unemployed who have not found suitable work, and workers who have lost part of their wages.
Changes have also been made to the procedure for engaging able-bodied persons in socially useful work under martial law, in terms of involving military administrations in making decisions on the introduction of labor service, involving internally displaced persons in socially useful work, extending to persons involved in performing socially useful work, requirements of the legislation in the field of obligatory state social insurance.
In addition, excluded from the list of persons involved in community service, persons involved in the implementation of measures of national resistance.
An indicative list of socially useful works that can be performed under martial law has also been approved.
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of June 21
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The issue of permits for temporary travel of IT specialists abroad will be resolved during June-July, predicts Oleksandr Fediyenko, Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Digital Transformation (People’s Deputy from the Servant of the People faction).
“I think that all this will be done within the framework of the adopted law on Dia.City. Most likely, we will talk about those enterprises that meet the criteria of Dia.City. This is my forecast. Most likely, this will be done throughout this and the next month, when summarizing work will be done to develop appropriate mechanisms for booking the departure of the relevant employees of the relevant specialized companies,” he said in a commentary to the Kyiv TV channel.
Fedienko noted that in the future, companies that meet pre-defined criteria will submit documents and argue the need to travel abroad for their chosen employees.
The MP also stressed that this is done in order to allow IT companies to fully work with foreign clients and fill the Ukrainian budget.
The government of Ukraine is working out a new model for organizing urban transport in order to simplify access to the transportation market, according to the website of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU), with reference to its head Olha Pischanska.
During the thematic round table that started in Paris as part of the Competition Week of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Pischanska clarified that the main idea of the model being developed is to simplify access to the transportation market as much as possible in order to create favorable conditions for competition.
“As a result of the war, these markets have undergone significant changes. In some cases, public transport has become an uncontested means of transportation (given the shortage of fuel in Ukraine). The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine constantly monitors the situation so that changes in the markets do not violate the requirements of competition law,” she said.
According to the committee, the focus on deregulation will have a positive impact on the formation of a new model of public transport in Ukraine – with a more intensive involvement of private business in passenger transportation, including to improve environmental standards.
The net loss of Ukrainian banks in January-May 2022 amounted to UAH 1.3 billion against a profit of UAH 23.8 billion for the same period last year, the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported on Tuesday.
It is indicated that the net profit for May of this year amounted to UAH 6.1 billion, while in April there was a net loss of UAH 7.426 billion.
According to the NBU, the income of banks for 5 months increased by 15% compared to the same period last year – up to UAH 116.5 billion, including interest income – by 18%, to UAH 76.957 billion, while the commission decreased by 8.9 % – up to UAH 31.032 billion.
At the same time, bank expenses in January-May increased by 51% – up to UAH 117.8 billion, including interest expenses – by 4.3%, up to UAH 22.135 billion, commission expenses – by 13.914%, up to UAH 8.4 billion and expenses from deductions to reserves – by 8.2 times, up to UAH 39.2 billion.
