Aligning ukrainian labor legislation with EU standards: A comparative analysis of transparency and predictability in employment conditions
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As Ukraine is moving closer to European integration and trying to adapt to the current challenges of globalization, the relevance and need for transforming the national labor legislation becomes obvious. The article aims to determine whether the current innovations in the labor legislation of Ukraine comply with the main legal acts that provide for transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union. This article attempts to identify problems and shortcomings of the normative work of state bodies in this area and elaborate on the amendments to particular domestic legislative acts. The leading research method is a comparative method used to examine legal frameworks and regulatory practices in the EU Member States and Ukraine and define common grounds and areas in the national legislation requiring improvement. The article analyzed the labor framework of the European Union and distinguished such shortcomings in the domestic legislation as the unclear definition of employee status, vague duration of probationary periods, undefined criteria for refusal and compensation for employees to refuse on-demand work, unresolved issue of minimum working hours, etc. The developed recommendations for amending legal acts of Ukraine make it possible to address the mentioned issues and receive timely and complete information about significant aspects of the work of Ukrainian employees.
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