ANNUAL REPORTOF UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CHAPTER 1 44 According to the State Employment Service of Ukraine, the number of citizens aged 15-70 in informal employment in the 9 months of 2019 is 125,000 persons less compared to the corresponding period of 2018, amounting to about 3.5 million people. Sectors with the most common informal employment are agriculture, forestry and fisheries (43%), wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles (17%), and construction (17%)19. Despite some positive trends in reducing the number of informally employed, employment in the informal sector remains quite significant. For example, one of five employed persons has not registered employment. The number of complaints to the Commissioner regarding employment without formal registration and payment of envelope wages has not decreased. The employers completely disregard labour legislation and constitutional human rights, as evidenced by the appeals of citizens. Example The Commissioner was contacted by citizen V., a resident of Volyn oblast, who reported that since 2017 she has been working in a store without having her employment formalized. When dismissed in 2019, the employer did not pay her wages. The inspection carried out by the State Labour Service did not confirm the fact that V. was in labour relations with the employer. Following the Commissioner’s request to the law enforcement authorities in this case, criminal proceedings were opened to investigate the crime provided for in part one of Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (gross violation of labour law). The monitoring of observance of the constitutional labour rights of citizens by the local executive authorities proved that the activity of the working groups on the legalization of salary payment and employment established by the state administrations pursuant to the Ordinance of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine # 359 of 2 March 2010 “On Approval of the Action Plan on Unshadowing Income and Employment relations” is not effective enough to detect shadow employment. Analysis of implementation of the Action Plan to implement the recommendations set out in the Concluding observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to the first periodic report of Ukraine on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities until 2020, approved by the Ordinance of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine #1073-r of 28 December 2016 proves that no measures were taken to support employment of persons with disabilities. The Ministry of Social Policy failed to develop the mechanisms to stimulate private and public employers to employ people with disabilities and amendments to the standard of providing case management at the workplace considering the needs of persons with intellectual and mental disabilities. 19 Information of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, www.dcz.gov.ua/analitics/67.