The EBA called for a change in the approach to booking in frontline territories

The European Business Association (EBA) has appealed to the government with a proposal to improve the mechanism for reserving employees of critically important enterprises operating in frontline regions. This is stated in a message from the association.

The current procedure allows only those enterprises that are directly registered in frontline territories to reserve up to 100% of employees subject to military service.

However, according to the association’s member companies, this approach does not take into account the actual structure of business activities. Often, companies are registered in one place but actually carry out production, trade, or logistics activities in frontline regions through their branches and structural units.

Such divisions create jobs for residents of frontline territories, where there is an acute shortage of personnel, provide the population with goods and services, fill local budgets with taxes, while actually working in conditions of increased security risks, the EBA notes.

«However, due to their formal link to the place of registration of the enterprise, they cannot exercise their right to reserve 100% of military-duty employees working in structural divisions of companies in frontline regions,» the appeal states.

The EBA proposes to take into account the actual place of business, not just the legal address of the company, and to make appropriate changes to the Reservation Procedure.

The proposal for businesses is to allow 100% reservations to be applied to individual structural units of the enterprise that actually operate in frontline territories and not to include such reserved employees in the general reservation limit for other regions.

It is expected that enterprises will submit lists of employees with supporting documents through the relevant regional or city administrations.

As a reminder, in August last year, the government allowed critically important enterprises that actually operate in areas of possible hostilities or active combat operations to reserve 100% of their employees.