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The Constitution of Ukraine adopted by Law of Ukraine No. 254/96 dated
29.06.1996 guarantees the following rights of citizens in terms of health care, labour
protection, and social protection:
The human being, his or her life and health, honour and dignity, inviolability

and safety are recognized in Ukraine as the highest social value.
Human rights and freedoms, and guarantees thereof shall determine the
essence and course of activities of the State. The State shall be responsible to the
individual for its activities. Affirming and ensuring human rights and freedoms shall
be the main duty of the State.
Everyone shall have the right to work, including a possibility to earn a living
by labour that he freely chooses or to which he freely agrees.
The State shall create conditions for citizens aimed at enabling the full
realization of their right to work, guarantee equal opportunities in the choice of
profession and of types of labour activities, and implement programmes for
vocational education, training, and retraining of personnel according to the needs of
society.
The use of forced labour shall be prohibited. Military or alternative (non-
military) service, work or service carried out by a person in compliance with a verdict
or other court decision, or in accordance with the martial or state of emergency laws,
shall not be considered the forced labour.
Everyone shall have the right to proper, safe, and healthy labour conditions
and remuneration not less than the minimum wage determined by law.
The employment of women and minors for work hazardous to their health
shall be prohibited.
Citizens shall be guaranteed protection from unlawful dismissal.
The right to timely payment for work performed shall be protected by law.
Everyone who is employed shall have the right to rest. This right shall be
ensured by providing weekly rest days, paid annual vacation, and by establishing a
shorter working day for certain professions and industries, as well as reducing
working hours at night.
The maximum duration of work time, the minimum duration of rest and of paid
annual vacation, days off and holidays, as well as other conditions for exercising this
right, shall be determined by law.
Citizens shall have the right to social protection including the right to financial
security in cases of complete, partial, or temporary disability, loss of the principal
wage-earner, unemployment due to circumstances beyond their control, old age, and
in other cases determined by law.
This right shall be guaranteed by the mandatory state social insurance based
on insurance payments made by citizens, enterprises, institutions, and organisations,
as well as by budgetary and other sources of social security; and by establishing a
network of state, communal, and private institutions caring for incapacitated persons.
Pensions and other types of social payments and assistance that are the
principal sources of subsistence shall ensure a standard of living not lower than the
minimum living standard established by law.
Everyone shall have the right to health protection, medical care, and medical
insurance.

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