An IDP received assistance in being dismissed from a company that remained in the temporarily occupied territory

Publication date: May 14, 2024

Iryna* was forced to move from the Melitopol district of the Zaporizhzhia oblast to Zaporizhzhia and could not register at the local employment center. She has not been officially fired from a job that is currently occupied.

Iryna turned to the lawyers of the NGO STEP with her problem. She said she could not even find her former employers alone. The management of the enterprise, located on the territory of the Yakymivka village council, which the russians temporarily occupy, did not get in touch with her. Iryna was still waiting to get her documents from Yakymivka.

Anton Stasik, one of the organization’s lawyers, advised the IDP and helped her prepare the necessary documents.

“We prepared a request to the Employment Center addressed to the employer to terminate the employment contract. Thus, following the procedure established by the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Internally Displaced Persons”**, Iryna’s employment contract was terminated. The date of its termination was the day following the day of submission of the application,” the lawyer said.

After her dismissal was formalized, the woman could register at the employment center and find a new job.

*Name has been changed for ethical reasons.

**Article 7. Ensuring the realization of the rights of registered internally displaced persons to employment, pensions, compulsory state social insurance, social services, education

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