Employers, in order to promptly attract new employees to perform work, as well as eliminate personnel shortages and labor shortages, can conclude fixed-term employment contracts with new employees for the period of martial law or the period of replacement of a temporarily absent employee, the Ministry of Economy said.

According to the explanation on its website, the reasons for concluding such contracts may be the actual absence of workers who, as a result of hostilities, were evacuated to another area, are on vacation, downtime, temporarily lost their ability to work, or whose fate is temporarily unknown.

The Ministry of Economy recalled that martial law in Ukraine was introduced by presidential decree No. 64 of February 24 from 5:30 on February 24, 2022 for a period of 30 days.