Martial law and general mobilization introduced in Ukraine due to Russian invasion. It also affected labor relations between the employer and the mobilized worker.. So, on July 1, during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, people's deputies adopted a draft law No. 7251 on amendments to some laws of Ukraine on the optimization of labor relations. DW reports..

What will change in the labor relations of the mobilized worker and the employer.

According to the document, employers will no longer pay salaries to workers mobilized or drafted into the army during martial law..

It is reported that if the bill adopted by the deputies is signed by the president, then only the workplace and position will be retained for those called up for service during mobilization.

Labor law lawyer Anna Lysenko noted that the monetary allowance that the state pays to military personnel remains, but wages at the workplace are not..

“Indeed, the changes provide that the job and position are preserved, that is, the employee will be able to return to his workplace after service, but the employer will no longer pay him the average salary during the call.. This is for the military who are already serving and those who will serve in the future.. The changes will come into force immediately after the publication of the document signed by the President and the employer will no longer have the obligation to pay the salary of a soldier,” she explained..

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Why the mobilized will not receive a salary from the employer.

Some people's deputies consider it wrong that employers should pay salaries to mobilized workers or contract employees.

According to Galina Tretyakova, a co-author of the bill, a deputy from the Servant of the People faction, this practice, so that the employer continues to pay salaries to a serviceman after mobilization, arose in 2014.

“By that time, there were not so many mobilized, and the state budget was not able or there was no political will to finance the military enough,” she explained..

She added that the adopted draft law corrects this situation, since the state can currently sufficiently finance the work of the military.

The deputy stressed that now a mobilized serviceman receives 30,000 hryvnias in monetary allowance, and if he participates in active hostilities, then 100,000 hryvnias.

“It was necessary to remove this burden from employers, because they pay taxes, which form the retention of our military, they still pay wages, and they also need to develop the economy,” Tretyakova said..

According to the President of the Confederation of Employers of Ukraine Oleksiy Miroshnichenko, earlier the state compensated the employer for the salaries that were paid to mobilized or conscripts, but later they refused and employers must continue to pay salaries from their own resources..

“At the time of martial law, the serviceman actually has labor relations with the state, then the state must pay,” he added..

Miroshnichenko added that there are enterprises that wish to voluntarily continue to pay salaries to their mobilized workers and support them in every possible way..

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How changes in labor relations with employers will affect the mobilized.

According to reserve colonel, military expert Oleg Zhdanov, financial issues can affect the motivation of military personnel, as people rely on the money paid by the Ministry of Defense and on their salary, which remained at their place of work..

“This will reduce the motivation of people to go voluntarily to military registration and enlistment offices and serve,” he added..

In this case, according to Zhdanov, it is necessary to consider an increase in the monetary allowance of a serviceman, since “because of the changes adopted by the deputies, the state loses more than wins”.

One of the servicemen, who volunteered for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the first days of the war, noted that the mobilized workers want to be sure that their family will have enough money while they carry out the tasks set by the state.

“The money that is paid in the army is enough, you can live. I was registered for a job at the minimum wage, after mobilization my employer began to send me even more money than I officially received. But after all, we are not fighting for money at all, ”said the military.

Recall that in Ukraine, people's deputies propose to expand the list of persons who can travel abroad during martial law and mobilization.