The Cabinet of Ministers has regulated the mechanism for promoting the employment of internally displaced persons

Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 696 dated 08.09.2015 approved the Procedure for implementation of employment promotion measures and refund of funds allocated for financing such measures in case of violation of employment guarantees for internally displaced persons

The document was adopted pursuant to Article 24-1 of the Law of Ukraine "On Employment of the Population" and defines the conditions and mechanism for the implementation of employment promotion measures by district, city, district in cities and city-district employment centers for IDPs.

The measures to promote employment include

• compensation to a registered unemployed IDP for actual transportation costs for moving to another administrative-territorial unit of the place of employment;
• reimbursement to a registered unemployed IDP for the costs of preliminary medical and drug testing in accordance with the law, if it is necessary for employment;
• reimbursement of employer's labor costs for employment of registered unemployed IDPs under fixed-term labor contracts;
• reimbursement of the employer's expenses for retraining and professional development of such persons.

These measures are funded within the validity period of the IDP registration certificate. In case of its expiration, funding is suspended and resumed after the term is extended.

The Resolution also defines a mechanism for employers to return funds in case of violation of employment guarantees for IDPs. The document does not apply to employers that are budgetary institutions.

More details of the document are available on the Internet at the following link: http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/696-2015-%D0%BF.

For practical issues related to the exercise of their rights, IDPs can contact the partners of the project "New Challenges in Legal Support and Protection of Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine", which is being implemented by the All-Ukrainian Coalition forLegal Aid with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Volyn, Dnipropetrovs'k, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Rivne, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky and Chernihiv regions.