Man working on laptop. File photoKYIV, Jan 19 A programmer in Ukraine was refused the next stage of the interview due to the fact that he communicated in Ukrainian, the country's language ombudsman Taras Kremin said on his Facebook page.
"The programmer was denied the next stage of the interview due to the fact that he did not want to communicate in a non-state language in the company. Let me remind you that according to Article 20 of the Law of Ukraine "On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language", which regulates the use of the state language in the field of labor relations, no one can be forced to use another language, except as the state", wrote Kremin.
At the same time, the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights, Lyudmila Denisova, stated in her Telegram that the company in question communicates in Russian. for a vacant position due to the fact that he insisted on communicating in the team exclusively in Ukrainian. The representative of the company refused employment, explaining that the team of LLC ANDNRSENLAB communicates in Russian,» Denisova said.
The «opposition platform» declared discrimination against Russian-speaking UkrainiansAccording to her, she turned to the company's management with a demand to carry out explanatory work with personnel officers and take measures to restore the rights of the applicant for a vacant position. In May 2019, the then President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, signed the law » On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as a State Language», according to which the Ukrainian language should be used exclusively in almost all spheres of life. The document also provided for the creation of a special «language commission», as well as the introduction of the post of commissioner for its protection, which is now occupied by Taras Kremin. The same law proposed to introduce exams for officials to determine the level of knowledge of the Ukrainian language, and to fine for violating the norms of the law in the amount of 5.1 thousand hryvnia (184 dollars) to 6.8 thousand hryvnias (245 dollars). radio stations had a quota of 50 percent of the use of the Ukrainian language, now the quota has risen to 90 percent. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky promised to carefully analyze the law for compliance with the constitution. He noted at the same time that the document was adopted “without a sufficiently broad preliminary discussion with the public.” The Constitutional Court of Ukraine considered that the law on the Ukrainian language as the state language does not violate the linguistic rights of national minorities, and any encroachment on its legal status threatens the national security of the country.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/c5f6736c879384e03ed13b892bb11c8c.jpg" />A new language norm came into force in Ukraine