Employment Of Foreigners In Ukraine

Employment of foreigners and persons without citizenship in Ukraine is carried out according to the Labour Code, Laws of Ukraine “About employment of population” and “About legal status of foreigners”, and also Regulation of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ¹ 2028 from a November, 1 in 1999, by which Order of registration of permission on employement is ratified.

1. Who can give an employment to foreigner in Ukraine

To give an employment to foreigner can enterprises, establishments, organizations which:

- are found on territory of Ukraine, regardless of that are they Ukrainian or foreign;
- are registered in the Center of employment as payers of insurance payments in Fund of obligatory social insurance in case of unemployment;
- have received permission on employment of foreigner (such permission is needed always, except for the cases set by international agreements, and also if a foreigner constantly lives on territory of Ukraine or is hired by investor in scopes and for position(according to speciality), definited by an agreement about distributing of products).

Getting this permission is very important, because for a work without permission a foreigner will be expelled from Ukraine, and a large fine (50 untaxable minimums of profits of citizens - for today it is 850 hryvnyas for every such worker) will be extracted from an employer.

2. Procedure: documents and terms

For the receipt of permission an employer addresses the State center of employment or its local bodies and submits following documents (p.5 of the Order):

1) Statement;
2) explanation of necessity of the use of labour of foreigners and possibility of creation for them necessary terms of stay and activity;
3) copy of contract between the Ukrainian and foreign subject of entrepreneurial activity (if any);
4) the witnessed copies of statute and certificate about state registration of subject of entrepreneurial activity;
5) list of foreigners (with pointing of the last name, name, year of birth, number of passport, specialization, sex);

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