State and society are not ready to accept veterans, - expert

The state and society of Ukraine are not ready to accept veterans returning from war and looking for work.

This opinion was expressed by Svitlana Sandulska, a consultant on veterans' employment at the Tribe NGO, on the air of Intent.Insight.

In her opinion, society needs to be prepared to communicate with veterans, but so far this has not been done. On the other hand, according to the expert, employers have a request to hire veterans.

"There are employers who are looking for a veteran as an employee who will work and who will not be taken away at some checkpoint and mobilized unexpectedly. However, it is possible that employers will hire veterans to receive certain preferences," the expert noted.

According to her, the state and society are only beginning to think about this issue.

However, as Svitlana Sandulska noted, veterans themselves do not take very well to announcements that emphasize the search for veterans.

"For some reason, they begin to doubt what they are giving preference to. I talked to one guy, and he said he didn't know whether to include participation in the war in his resume. He said, "People don't react to me in the same way," the expert said.

The expert also noted that veterans often do not want to return to their previous jobs.

"First, they come to a team where others did not fight and often cannot work there. In addition, they have suffered some psychological trauma and often want to change something in their lives. Often, even those who were entrepreneurs do not want to return to their previous jobs. It seems to me that we will need to separate veterans somewhat, because they will have to retrain, look for a job, undergo rehabilitation, both physical if they were injured and psychological," the expert noted.

Every week, Intent looks at one problem that worries Ukrainians. We raise topical issues and try to solve specific problems. This time the topic of the show will be the situation with electricity in Odesa. The previous show on November 19 was devoted to the situation with power supply in Odesa region after the Russian attack. Vitaliy Savich, Energy Manager, was the guest of the studio and explained why Odesa region is so vulnerable, what communication should have been done by DTEK and the city authorities, and how everyone's energy consumption affects the situation.

It was decided to dedicate the November 5 issue of Intent.Insight to the confrontation between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States of America, as November 5 is the main day of the US presidential election.

On October 29, we discussed the situation with the violation of language legislation in Odesa with Yaroslava Vitko-Prysiazhniuk , a representative of the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, a deputy of the Odesa District Council.

Кирило Бойко