Basic model of state employment policy

According to Article 43, Constitution of Ukraine, “Everyone shall have the

right to work, including a possibility to earn a living by labour that he freely

chooses or to which he freely agrees. The State shall create conditions for citizens

that will make it possible to fully realise their right to work, guarantee equal

opportunities in the choice of profession and of types of labour activities, and

implement programmes for vocational education, training, and retraining of

personnel according to the needs of society.

Fundamental principles of the state employment policy include:

 providing all citizens, regardless of their origin, social and property status,

race and ethnic background, sex, age, political opinions, attitude to religion,

with equal opportunities for the effective exercise of the right to choose an

occupation freely according to abilities and professional attainment with

account of personal interests and social needs;

 contributing to ensuring efficient employment, to preventing unemployment,

and to creating new jobs and conditions for the development of enterprise;

 coordinating activities in the field of employment with other economic and

social policy areas based on state and regional employment programmes;

 cooperation among trade unions, associations (unions) of entrepreneurs and

enterprise owners, institutions, organisations or bodies authorised thereby in

the interaction with public administration bodies for the development,

implementation and supervision of measures aimed at securing employment

of the population;

 international cooperation in addressing problems of employment of the

population, including Ukrainian citizens’ work abroad and that of foreign

citizens in Ukraine.

Also, the State shall provide:

investment and tax policy measures aimed at securing optimal deployment of

productive forces, increasing workers’ mobility, creating new technologies,

encouraging enterprise, creating small businesses, applying flexible working

schedules and homework, as well as other measures promoting preservation and

development of the jobs system;

 securing workers’ rights and interests, providing favourable conditions at

work, improving the legislation on employment of the population and on

labour;

 conducting analytical and scientific studies on the economic structure, and

forecasting subsequent changes in quality and distribution of labour force;

 regulating foreign economic activities to the extent concerning involvement

and use of foreign labour force in Ukraine based on quotas and licensing;

 contributing, as necessary, to creation of additional jobs by enterprises,

institutions and organisations of all forms of ownership as well as to

improvement of working conditions in public production;

 organising vocational guidance.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Resolution No. 922 of 5 July 2006

approved the Basic Directions for pursuing state employment policy throughout

2009.

Development of the Basic Directions was caused by the need for

improving the coordination between central and local executive authorities for

regulation of the labour market situation.

The goal of the Basic Directions is to create, assisted by legal,

organisational and economic mechanisms, conditions for promoting:

 employment of the population by means of retaining efficient, and creating

new, jobs at enterprises, in organisations and institutions of all forms of

ownership;

 self-employment of the population, and development of enterprise;

 training of labour force whose occupational structure and qualification level

meet the needs of economy and labour market;

 improvement of labour force quality, and development of a system of

vocational training during the labour activitiy period with account of labour

market needs;

 stronger motivation for legal productive employment;

 employment of individuals in need of social production and unable to

compete in the labour market on equal terms;

 vocational training and employment of physically and mentally handicapped

persons;

 return of the registered unemployed to productive employment;

 unshadowing of relations in the field of employment;

 legalisation of outbound labour migration of Ukrainian citizens, and

strengthening of their social protection.

Date: 2015-01-02; view: 996