Adopted as a basis draft Labor Code of Ukraine No. 1658 received 1,600 proposals from people’s deputies in order to prepare it for the second reading. These proposals are being considered by the working group under the Committee on Social Policy, Employment and Pension Provision. After that all proposals together with technical comments of the International Labour Organisation will be examined at a meeting of the Committee, and then the agreed draft with the table of amendments will be put to the vote in the Parliament.
This was disclosed by Chairperson of the Committee, one of the authors of the draft Labour Code of Ukraine Liudmyla Denisova during a tripartite meeting dedicated to the presentation of the Memorandum of technical comments of the ILO on the draft Code, which was attended by MPs, representatives of the International Labour Organisation, the Administration of the President of Ukraine, state authorities, all-Ukrainian trade unions, employers' organizations, and scientists.
Liudmyla Denisova recalled that the draft Labour Code was adopted as a basis on November 5, 2015 and right after that it was sent to the International Labour Organisation for the evaluation.
"This is not the first draft of the Labor Code of Ukraine for the years of Ukraine's independence. However, I hope that exactly this draft will be supported by all parties to the social dialogue and approved in principle by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine," Liudmyla Denisova said.
The Chairperson of the Committee also addressed the representatives of the ILO with a request to send an expert, who will be present at meetings of the working group and the Committee in order to discuss ILO's technical comments.
In turn, ILO National Coordinator in Ukraine Sergiy Savchuk said that the comments are the result of four-month work of International Labour Organisation's experts. "They are very informative, as the main objective was bringing the new Labour Code of Ukraine into line with international standards," he said.
Colin Fenwick, the Director of the Labor Law and Reform Unit at the ILO's Governance and Tripartism Department, said that experts analyzed the draft Labour Code of Ukraine in terms of the system of collective labor dispute resolution, labor protection, compliance with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation and other regulations.
Colin Fenwick also stressed that the most important in the draft Labour Code is to level the interests of the State, trade unions, representing workers, and employers.
Colin Fenwick, together with senior specialist for Social Dialogue and Labour Law at ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Central and Eastern Europe Christina Mihes and ILO specialist in labor law Valerie Van Goethem provided more details concerning the technical comments on the draft Labour Code of Ukraine.