1. On July 29, as part of the Laen-tour of UAFM in Transcarpathia, members of the association conquered the highest point of Ukraine, Mount Hoverla, whose height is 2061 meters. New peaks and new achievements are ahead. Any obstacle is better and easier to overcome in a group of partners, friends and like-minded people from UAFM.
2. Furniture exporters who use shipping by sea can take advantage of the fact that “Ukrzaliznytsia” is launching a container transportation service by intermodal trains, at the first stage – to Gdansk (Poland). In Ukraine, cargo will be sent from four cities – Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Vinnytsia.
3. Scoop Technologies, a company that advises businesses on the implementation of a mixed work format, found that companies with flexible work formats found employees for open positions twice as quickly as those that required an office presence. Job seekers put job flexibility second only to salary.
4. State Tax Service and experts have developed further changes to the mechanism of blocking tax invoices. This project of changes provides for a significant reduction (by half) of the number of payers of blocked invoices, taking into account the individual positive tax history of the payer. The document will be made public for discussion in the near future.
5. The Ministry of Social Policy has published a series of recommendations on how to recognize labor exploitation. A sign of labor exploitation is unfair working conditions: less than the minimum wage, working off imaginary debts, working for housing and food. But the key thing is that a person is forced to work against his will.
6. Bank “Lviv” together with the international association “Oxfam” launched a grant program within which 1,000,000 euros will be distributed among small businesses that are actively engaged in charity work and take care of people affected by the war. Entrepreneurs working in the western regions can receive up to $25,000. (www.banklviv.com/grant-oxfam).
7. The State Labor Service noted that the number of hours in the working week may be increased. Ukrainians will have to work up to 60 hours a week and rest – up to 24 hours. In the realities of war, the number of days off can be reduced from two to one.
8. Thanks to the use of the latest technologies, the Kronospan company has created a new collection of impressive and realistic plate decors with multidimensional synchronized embossing under the expressive name Harmony. Five decors have deep cracks filled with dark putty, helping to achieve a rustic and well-balanced surface look.
9. In the near future, the policy on government procurement will be changed, the Ministry of Economy reported. All purchases not related to weapons and military equipment will be made through the Prozorro system. Ukrainian companies will be able to actively participate in open tenders or requests for proposals in “Prozorro Market”.
10. In the first reading, the Parliament adopted a bill on simplifying the conditions for doing business during martial law. Entrepreneurs will be able to quickly resume work that was suspended due to hostilities, or start a new business of their own.