The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law “On amendments to several legislative acts of Ukraine to ensure equality between single mothers and single fathers”

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
15 May 2013, 13:47

The legislative act supplements article 232 of the Labor Code of Ukraine with the provision that allows single fathers flush with single mothers to approach regional, city regional and city courts in dispute over employment refusal, in case of presence of a child under fourteen.       

The law granted also the right to single fathers for the priority to housing and the right to working age single fathers with children under the age of fourteen years for additional state guarantees of employment.

The respective bill was registered under No. 1179.