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Germany is moving the arrival deadline to June 15.
Reflecting Ukraine’s sclerotic bureaucracy, one month after the government allocated funds to triple the March pay of doctors and nurses working with Covid-19 patients, the payments have been made in only one oblast – Poltava – out of the 24, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said Monday in online briefing. Last Wednesday, President Zelenskiy threatened to fire regional administrators who do not implement his order for the payments. Frustrated by the delay, medical workers increasingly protest. An AP story from a hospital in Ukraine’s hardest hit region, Chernivtsi, was picked up by dozens of US news sites, including The Washington Post.
Remote working will expand. Half of companies surveyed by CBRE Ukraine may expand work from home after the quarantine fully ends. Legal, financial, analytical, marketing, and HR are the departments are more inclined to expand remote working. “There will be an increase in the trend for hot desking,” reports CBRE. Of the companies polled, 35% want to reduce office space by 15-20% and 6% want to cut it by more than 50%.
4.4.2 Nominal wages dynamics
Real wages in Ukraine dropped 0.4% y/y in April, after growing 9.3% y/y growth in March, the State Statistics Service reported on May 28. The average monthly nominal wage declined to UAH10,430 a month ($383) from UAH11,446 in March, or -9.6% m/m in real terms.
The leading regions for average monthly wages were the city of Kyiv (UAH15,278), Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk (UAH12,473) and Kyiv (UAH10,797) regions.
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