The Cabinet of Ministers has reduced the percentage of mobilisation-eligible employees who can be reserved at critically important defence industry enterprises from 100% to 95%. This also applies to fuel and energy sector institutions, contracting organisations, and domestic manufacturers of transformer equipment for the energy sector.
The relevant decree was published on the Cabinet of Ministers’ website. The number of mobilisation-eligible people subject to reservation may exceed 95% by decision of the Ministry of Defence or the Ministry of Energy, taken with due regard to agreed recommendations and proposals from the Coordination Centre.
The Coordination Centre is a new body whose creation is provided for by this decree.
“Grounds for the Coordination Centre to refuse to consider substantiated proposals to increase reservation volumes include, in particular, establishing facts of systematic violations by the head of a critically important institution of legal requirements in the field of organising and maintaining military records, including the presence over the past 12 months of two or more documented instances of such violations and/or the head being held administratively liable for committing them,” the document says.
The number of mobilisation-eligible people in the representative offices of donor institutions and implementers of international technical assistance projects who are subject to reservation must be no more than 50% of the number of mobilisation-eligible employees directly involved in carrying out the tasks of a single project, but must not exceed seven people. The number may be higher when more than seven mobilisation-eligible people are directly involved in carrying out the tasks of a single project, but within 50% of the total number of mobilisation-eligible employees.
Critically important status may be granted to enterprises operating in the following sectors:
- the defence industry;
- the fuel and energy sector;
- housing and communal services;
- the extractive industry;
- the manufacturing industry;
- agro-industrial production, including ensuring food security;
- retail trade;
- construction;
- transport and logistics;
- information technology;
- banking;
- healthcare;
- communications;
- carry out emergency rescue and other urgent works (emergency-
- rescue services);
- carry out activities in a field agreed by the Coordination Centre following a substantiated request from a central executive authority or another state body that ensures the formation and/or implements state policy in the relevant field.
Change in the Approach to Reservations
Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi announced at the beginning of this month a reduction in the maximum possible number of mobilisation-eligible people who can receive a reservation from mobilisation. He explained that some enterprises abuse this by increasing headcount while employees are not engaged in critically important work. Among the options discussed was reducing the percentage from 100% to 85%.
The approach was criticised by business representatives, who said it could jeopardise critically important activities.
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