Two bills aimed at supporting workers and businesses in frontline communities have been registered in the Verkhovna Rada, said Member of Parliament Mykhailo Ananchenko.
One initiative would introduce a special status for those who maintain the functioning of such territories — medical workers, educators, utilities staff and employees of enterprises who continue to work despite the threat of shelling. For workers with this status the bill proposes increasing pensionable service and compensating utility payments. Pensionable service refers to the period of employment for which contributions to the pension fund have been paid.
The second bill concerns businesses that continue to operate in frontline territories. For such enterprises it proposes cutting the profit tax rate to 9% and introducing special lending and privatisation conditions.
The text also mentions existing payments: a separate monthly supplement of 2600 UAH for teachers who work in person or in a blended format in frontline and border communities, as well as almost 2.3 billion UAH in additional subsidies from the state budget to the local budgets of affected territories. The funds are intended to help cover priority expenditures, including payment of salaries to public-sector employees.
The criteria for granting the special status, the registration procedure, the list of documents and the dates on which the provisions would come into force have not yet been published. At present, the bill texts do not specify any concrete procedures for workers and enterprises that would already require action.
