Labour & Employment

Our services

Sayenko Kharenko’s labour and employment team specializes in all areas of labour and employment law and provides a wide range of services to address the clients’ needs, including:

• labour/employment law compliance audits;
• due diligence reviews of labour law and labour law related liabilities in corporate acquisitions (including assessment of Ukrainian targets’ compliance with privacy/data protection laws and FCPA/UKBA /Ukrainian anti-corruption/anti-bribery legislation);
• compensation and benefits, including executive compensation issues;
• disciplinary actions;
• all aspects of advising on trade union regulation and other employees’ representation matters, including consulting on global trade union activities and their implications on Ukrainian employers;
• bringing global employment/corporate policies and procedures of transnational companies in compliance with Ukrainian law;
• complex, know-how employee dismissals, including those caused by FCPA/UKBA/Ukrainian anti-corruption/anti-bribery legislation related violations by top management of Ukrainian subsidiaries of multinational companies;
• redundancies and mass layoffs due to employer’s liquidation or business restructuring;
• advising on employing interns and temporary employees;
• advising on HR record retention issues;
• consulting on implementing ‘do not hire’ global policies in Ukrainian subsidiaries;
• drafting sophisticated employment agreements/contracts, job descriptions, employment termination agreements and other related documentation for CEOs, top management and other staff, as well as internal personnel policies and procedures, and collective bargaining agreements;
• adjusting global employee references release procedures to the Ukrainian data protection legislation;
• advising on military service and mobilization laws implications on employers;
• developing sophisticated internal regulations and related documents on protecting confidential information and commercial secret, in particular of companies subject to mandatory disclosure of public information;
• advising on engaging foreign secondees by Ukrainian companies and sending Ukrainian employees on secondment abroad;
• consulting on various aspects of the multijurisdictional employee transfers, including developing such transfers algorithms;
• advising on the personnel outsourcing, including on relevant cross-border issues;
• advising on employment and immigration law issues, and all other aspects of engaging foreign labour, including within the framework of the services agreements between the Ukrainian company and the foreign service provider entity;
• obtaining work permits and service cards for foreign employees and assisting them with various immigration law issues (e.g., obtaining D-type visas, temporary residence permits, permanent residence permits, etc.);
• advising on the specifics of Ukrainian workplace health and safety regulation, conducting due-diligence reviews of Ukrainian targets’ compliance with Ukrainian labour safety legislation, developing sophisticated labour safety policies and procedures, and adjusting global corporate workplace health and safety policies to Ukrainian legislation;
• advising on the equal employment opportunities policies and procedures, including on bringing the global corporate anti-discrimination policies and procedures in compliance with applicable Ukrainian laws;
• consulting on specifics of employing people with disabilities;
• representing clients in disputes with trade unions, including in labour disputes commission, court and mediation procedure;
• litigation and other dispute settlement, including  employment mediation.