The State Employment Service has suspended a decision of Kyiv city employment center that voided a labor permit in Ukraine for Canadian citizen, journalist and TV host Savik Shuster until the circumstances of his case are clarified.

The State Employment Service wrote on its Facebook page on Thursday that the decision was made after Shuster sent an application to the authority.

"When Kyiv city employment center signed decree No. 54, the authority acted within its powers as prescribed in Ukrainian law. I want to say that the employment service is not an old archaic structure anymore. We're being reformed and we are always open. I have received an application from Shuster. Our reaction has been to suspend the decision made in the decree until the circumstances are clarified. Thus, today labor permit for Canadian citizen Shuster No. 43388 is valid until the circumstances are clarified," Head of the central office of the State Employment Service Serhiy Kravchenko said.

Earlier Kyiv city employment center in decree No. 54 of April 25, 2016 invalidated labor permit No. 43388 for Shuster in Savik Shuster Studio LLC on the post of director general. The center's decision rests on the submission of allegedly untrue data that Shuster has no record of convictions. On April 22, the State Employment Service received a letter from the State Fiscal Service that a criminal case was opened against Shuster placed on the pre-trial investigation register on October 5, 2015.