Maxim Polishkevych, the Managing Partner of the Resultat Law Firm explains your rights at work and specific features of labour legislation.

Even if you don’t have a written employment contract, the laws still support the employee’s side. The absence of such a contract doesn’t prove that the employee has no connection to the company.

An employment contract is meant to be concluded if the employee has started to work with the consent or on the instructions of the employer or his representative. The employer is required to formalize the contract with the employee within three working days from the actual beginning of the work – no matter whether a person is working on probation period or has successfully completed it.

Your rights during probation period

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Communication with police happens much more often than we’d like to, that’s why it’s so important to know your rights, especially if this communication occurs without your initiative.

There are three main principles you should remember if a police officer stops you:

• don’t provoke
• don’t offend
• don’t run away

On the other hand, a policeman should act courteously, introduce himself or herself and he or she shouldn’t require personal documents without obvious reason.[…] Read more

Rights of access to information are clearly defined in the Law of Ukraine “On Access to the Public Information”, which was adopted in 2011. According to this Law, the public information is any information, which is available in national or local authorities, and which is not regarded as information with limited access. For obtaining of valuable public information you may apply to any public or local authorities, as well as to all the companies which have information about the state of the environment, the quality of food and other products, as well as disasters, natural hazards and other emergency situations that have occurred or may occur and threaten the health and safety of citizens.

Rights of access to information about a person are clearly described in the Law of Ukraine mentioned above. Thus, The Managing Partner of the Resultat Law Firm Maxim Polishkevych emphasizes […] Read more