How to issue a leave at work?

Labor Code and other legal acts do not regulate in detail the procedure for announcing and introducing layoffs at the enterprise.

A certain algorithm of the employer's actions is contained in the Letter of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of Ukraine dated October 23, 2007 No. 257/06/187-07 "Regarding the organization of work during downtime at the enterprise." The Ministry recommends that employers take the following actions:

• issue an order to announce a layoff (it should specify the period of implementation or the circumstance that will be associated with the termination of the layoff; list the employees to whom it applies; determine the amount of wages that will be paid to employees, as well as the person responsible for notifying of this order to other employees);

• draw up an act of downtime (record the reasons that led to the suspension of the enterprise's work).

If the layoff will have a 24-hour nature, the order should define the need for the presence or absence of the employee at work.