On March 25 Ukrainian government approved the draft Law “On Public Service and Service in Local Self-government Bodies” and submitted it to Verkhovna Rada.

The draft law provides legal background for making service in local self-government bodies more prestigious, regulating the status of a local self-government officer, facilitating equal access to service in local self-government bodies, based solely on individual achievements and credits, ensuring transparent process of appointment of local self-government officers, stimulating career development, de-politicizing, creating new labour remuneration model, which minimizes the supervisor’s subjectivity factor, and improving of social and material protection level for public servants.

According to the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, Ganna Onyshchenko, this Law provides competitive procedures, understandable labour remuneration system, incentives and awards for public servants, as well as the mechanism for bringing them to responsibility.