Mass events to celebrate Christmas and New Year are accompanied by fairs and entertainment at attractions. Read more

The procedure for detecting an employee’s suspicion of an occupational disease, establishing and confirming an occupational disease, as well as the forms of relevant documents defined and approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On Approval of the Procedure for Investigation and Accounting of Accidents, Occupational Diseases and Accidents at Work” of April 17, 2019 № 337. Read more

The normal working hours of employees may not exceed 40 hours per week.

Enterprises and organizations may set a lower working time rate when concluding a collective agreement. Read more

On December 13, 2021, a week-long online course organized by the International Labor Organization, “The key role of Occupational Health and safety in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic”, was launched. Read more

From December 1, 2021 in Ukraine, the subsistence level for able-bodied persons has been systematically increased from 2,379 UAH to 2,481 UAH.

Accordingly, the amount of related one-off benefits financed by the Social Insurance Fund of Ukraine for victims of accidents at work or occupational diseases, as well as persons entitled to benefits in the event of loss of a breadwinner has increased.

Thus, for persons whose right to insurance payments from the Fund came from December 1 this year, the amount of assistance will be:

-         to the victim as a result of an accident at work in accordance with the degree of loss of professional capacity for work (maximum 17 living wage established by law for able-bodied persons, with 100% disability) - 42,177 UAH (previously - 40,443 UAH);

-         family in case of death of the victim (100 subsistence level) - UAH 248,100 (previously - UAH 237,900);

-         to the dependent in case of death of the victim (20 sizes of a subsistence level) - 49 620 UAH (earlier - 47 580 UAH).