EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP INVOLVING INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE UNDER MARTIAL LAW IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Ukraine has faced with the huge migration crisis in Europe after the Second World War. The problems of internally displaced people have the economical, psychological and legal character. An effective employment mechanism should help Ukraine avoid a demographic catastrophe and facilitate effective recovery after its victory. The purpose of the work was to study the legal framework for the employment of internally displaced people, identify problems and develop proposals aimed at improving the legal mechanism. The work reviewed the legislative framework regulating the labour relations of internally displaced people during the period of martial law, and the existing developments in the field of labour relations and employment of IDPs since 2014. The results of the study also showed that problems with the employment of immigrants have economic and psychological problems.We propose to employ IDPs considering the perspectives of their returning. The organization of employment should be entrusted to the military administrations of the territorial communities from which they came. In order to organize a job search and retraining, displaced people are not necessarily obliged to have the status of unemployed. The state should compensate the costs and provide preferential loans and loans for the retraining and accommodation of IDPs. The analysis of the author’s observations, interviews and appeals by IDPs for legal advice in social networks helped to identify common problems during the wartime period, such as a decrease in the level of wages and the number of vacancies. The specific problems of IDPs that we were able to identify are the lack of qualifications needed by migrants in the local labour market, lower wages in regions receiving migrants than those from which they moved, expensive accommodation in territorial communities where labour markets are wider. The psychological reason for reluctance to look for work is the desire and expectation of returning home.