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The Ukrainian government is discussing a new model of interaction with business regarding mobilization of workers. Under one possible approach, enterprises could be given more responsibility for determining whom to keep at work and whom to transfer for mobilization.
How mobilization could affect business decisions
Such changes in personnel reservation could create additional problems for managers and owners of enterprises. This was explained by political scientist Ihor Reiterovych, according to NV.
According to Reiterovych, if a company has 100 workers, and only 90 of them receive reservations, the leadership will have to decide what to do with the remaining ten.
This way, as I understand it, they are trying to shift responsibility specifically onto the enterprise. So that they themselves on the enterprise would choose the people who will be sent for mobilization. To determine who will handle these questions and so on. Because if you have limited reservation, obviously you then face the problem of you either firing people, or simply transferring data of these people to the mobilization department or to the TCC, and these people start working with them.
– said Reiterovych.
In his opinion, from a moral-ethical point of view, this creates a serious problem for business managers.
Why it will be difficult for enterprises to choose workers
Reiterovych emphasized that owners and managers will have to compare workers with each other and argue why some should stay at work and others be subject to mobilization.
We still have a number of unresolved questions related to the SCT, to mobilization as such, to people who have not updated their data and are outside all formal procedures. And trying to shift responsibility again to those who do not hide anywhere and do everything themselves, for example in certain enterprises, is also not a very good policy.
– said the political scientist.
What is known about changes in reservation
About the review of reservation rules became known in 13 October, when MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported on the corresponding government resolution. Later, Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky explained that the system is being reviewed due to "massive abuses," while assuring that radical changes for defense and energy enterprises would not occur.
24 October 2026 year the government limited reservation at defense and energy enterprises to 95% of workers.
And already on 26 October Koretsky urged business to jointly develop a new social model, under which workers could be reserved, and enterprises would simultaneously take on obligations for the forecast mobilization of people to the army.
This is an idealistic model. If such a solution could be found, the need to search for people on the streets would disappear. And if business, an entrepreneur, a manager, a leader takes on such an obligation, then there would be no need for anything else; this would be a new social contract. But not thinking ahead or preparing for it is a super-strategic mistake.
– said the Prime Minister.
Regarding this decision, the government wants to reach an agreement with business by December 1.
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