On May 12, 2022, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading bill N 5371 "on simplifying the regulation of labor relations in the field of small and medium-sized businesses and reducing the administrative burden on entrepreneurial activity": http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/ zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=71653.

Also, the Ukrainian parliament voted to shorten the time for preparing this bill for the second reading.

Obviously, very soon bill N 5371 will become law and will allow businessmen to dismiss workers without the reasons defined in the current Code of Labor Laws, adopted back in Soviet times.

The bill concerns enterprises employing up to 250 workers. There are more than 70 percent of such enterprises in Ukraine.

However, the law "On the organization of labor relations under martial law", which Zelensky signed on March 15, 2022, applies to all enterprises:
https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2136-20#Text.

On the basis of this law "on the organization of labor relations," large enterprises break collective agreements with trade unions, do not pay wages to workers, dismiss workers, and limit social guarantees. This is happening at large public and private enterprises: Kyiv Metro, Ukrzaliznytsya, Odessa Port Plant, Arcelor Mital in Krivoy Rog and others.

Also, this law practically destroys the rights of trade unions and allows owners of enterprises to cancel vacation for a worker.

The Kyiv authorities have been limiting the social rights of Ukrainians for several years in a row in the interests of national and transnational capital.

The goal is to completely dismantle the welfare state in Ukraine and build a dependent state with a neoliberal economic model. The country is a raw material appendage with cheap labor.

The introduction of martial law is an excellent argument for the Kyiv authorities and capital to destroy the labor rights of Ukrainians.

There is no doubt that the authorities and capital expect that the norms of the laws adopted during the martial law will remain in force after its abolition.