The Law on the Reservation of IT Professionals has been adopted!

Publication date:

07.11.2022

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Since the first weeks of the War, the Association has maintained an open dialogue with the government and has raised an extremely important issue for maintaining the stable work of the national IT industry – the possibility of reservation of IT professionals from mobilization during martial law.

The Association repeatedly came up with specific proposals for solving this issue during meetings with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal in September and the First Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Svyridenko in May and on the eve of the adoption of the law on November 3. Relevant proposals were sent to the government, including regarding the reservation of conscripts.

On November 4, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine finally adopted the longed-for Law on the reservation of conscripts during mobilization and martial law with a reduction in the period of preparation for its second reading (Draft Law No. 7687).

Two key innovations requested by the business to organize a transparent reservation procedure are:

giving the government powers to develop a new reservation procedure. This procedure should include criteria for classifying enterprises as critical.
allow reservations to be made without mobilization tasks for enterprises that are critically important for the functioning of the economy and ensuring the vital activities of the population.

The document specifies the categories of conscripts that can be reserved during martial law and mobilization. In particular, those conscripts who work at enterprises, institutions and organizations that are critically important for the functioning of the economy and ensuring the vital activities of the population in the special period will be subject to reservation. Business entities will be assigned to such enterprises, institutions and organizations according to the criteria and in the order established by the Cabinet of Ministers.

From the first days of the War, the Association initiated the reservation of IT professionals issue and made specific proposals to the Office of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers. These months of the War have shown how critical this issue is for the stable operation of the IT industry. We are grateful to the Government, Members of the Parliament, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Digital Transformation for the open dialogue and support of the industry, which has become a support for our economy in these difficult for the country times. The adopted law will enable Ukrainian companies to keep their contracts and clients,