Roman Chumak, attorney, managing partner of the Ares Law Firm, made a comment to the URSA MEDIA publication on the issue of gender equality in labor relations and the legal ban on the employment of women in difficult jobs and jobs with particularly harmful working conditions.
Roman Chumak highlighted that the Labor Code of Ukraine, adopted in 1971, contains norms inherited from Soviet legislation, including Article 174, which prohibits the employment of women in heavy or hazardous work. However, due to Ukraine's European integration and the promotion of gender equality, the legislative ban on employing women in such jobs was lifted in October 2017. The only exception remains underground work in mines, in accordance with an international convention, from which Ukraine plans to withdraw.