PRESS RELEASE
February 19, 2013

On February 28, 2013, at 1 pm VKP’s Partner Oksana Voynarovska, will hold an internet-conference on labour disputes, their causes, preventative remedial devices and resolution options.
Properly regulated labour relations are the key to company wellbeing and maximum productivity. Challenges of early warning and effective legal resolution of labour disputes have always been front of mind for both parties.
The internet-conference will review the following issues:

  • What are the main causes of disagreement in corporate labour disputes and how to avoid misunderstandings between the parties;
  • Individual and collective labour disputes: legal and practical aspects;
  • The role of trade unions in settlement of labour disputes;
  • Denial of employment: grounds and consequences;
  • How should an employer properly approach the issue redundancies;
  • Prevention and mitigation of legal and psychological risks of corporate labour disputes;
  • Dismissing managers: legal technicalities of firing a CEO (senior manager);
  • Dismissal of employees as a result of certification, in a decree, etc.;
  • Recovery of lost wages and non-pecuniary damages;
  • Peculiarities of reinforcing judgments for reinstatement;
  • Novelties of the new Labour Code draft concerning employment termination and appealing it in court.

VKP's Partner Oksana Voynarovska, has been repeatedly recognized by international and domestic law reviews as the best Ukrainian expert on labour and employment law. For the last 5 years (2007-2012) Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients has been naming Mrs Voynarovska Ukraine's #1 Labour and Employment Law Practitioner.

To ask your question and for more detailed information please check LIGA:ZAKON:
http://conf.ligazakon.ua/conference/trud-vkp.htm

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For more details please contact Yuliya Chervonookaya,
Head of PR/BD Department
Tel.: +380 44 581 7777
E-mail: pr@vkp.kiev.ua

About the Firm
Established in 1992, Vasil Kisil & Partners is a Ukrainian law firm that delivers integrated legal advice in banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets, antitrust, competition and trade, dispute resolution, tax law, energy and natural resources law, intellectual property law, labor and employment law, real estate and construction law, as well as PPP, concessions and infrastructure law.

The firm`s clients include such world-known companies as Acron, Air Liquide, Alfa Bank (Ukraine), Alpcot Agro, Africa-Israel Group, Ardagh, Astellas Pharma, BASF, Bayer Consumer, BNP Paribas, British American Tobacco, Central European Media Enterprises, Coca Cola, Credit Agricole Group, Danone, Dell Inc., DuPont, EBRD, Ericsson, Energy Standard Group, Eurosport, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Inditex Group, Kraft, LG Electronics, Leroy Merlin Ukraine, MTS, Moody’s, Mott MacDonald Limited, NCH Capital, Opel, Philips, Red Bull, Samsung, Sberbank of Russia, SEB AB, Seven Hills, Shell, Shelton Petroleum, Sony Corp, St. Sophia Homes, Swedbank AB, Tchibo, Thomson Reuters, Ukrainian Media Holding, Ukrsibbank, Ukrsotsbank, UniCredit Group, Vanco International / Vanco Energy, Volkswagen, VympelCom, YouTube.