How is labor law changing due to a pandemic?
What's the difference between irregular working hours and a flexible schedule, and who has to pay for electricity when you work from home?
Recently, there's been a demand to introduce new norms that would bring legislation in line with reality, because there wasn't such an urgent need to transfer people to remote work ever before in the post-Soviet space. A year after introducing a full lockdown in Ukraine, many of us haven't returned to our offices; after all, remote work in most cases is more comfortable than in the office.
However, several problems arose along with this, such as the inability to control the employee's work, numerous "overtime" hours due to irregular working hours… These problems are gradually being resolved: new terms and requirements are introduced that protect some of the workers' rights. We suggest you familiarize yourself with the changes that have already entered into force and with those, planned for implementation.
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