PRESS RELEASE
March 1, 2013

On February 28, 2013, at 1 pm VKP’s Partner Oksana Voynarovska conducted a webinar on labour disputes, their causes, preventative remedial devices and resolution options. The event took place at LIGABusinessInform and YURLIGA press-centre.
The topic has aroused considerable interest and many questions, which proved its relevance for both employees and employers, since properly handled labour disputes are the key to company's performance. The webinar addressed main causes of disagreement in corporate labour disputes and how to avoid misunderstandings between the parties, disputes arising out of denial of employment, including grounds and consequences, the role of trade unions in settlement of labour disputes, staff reductions, individual and collective labour disputes, their legal and practical aspects, dismissal of employees as a result of certification, as well as the novelties of the new Labour Code draft.
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.

Developing its labour and employment practice is one of the top priorities for Vasil Kisil and Partners law firm. To this end at the beginning of February 2013 VKP has become a member of Ius Laboris (Brussels, Belgium), the world's largest alliance of leading law firms providing specialised labour and employment legal services with over 1,000 lawyers in over 40 countries and more than 150 cities.

Oksana's expert commentary and answers to questions from the audience are available LIGABusinessInform and YURLIGA websites at:

http://conf.ligazakon.ua/conference/trud-vkp.htm
http://press.liga.net/conf/oksana_voynarovskaya/

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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. Vasil Kisil & Partners is a member of such international professional associations as TerraLex and IBA.

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.