2.  According to the Court of Auditors of Ukraine, Informal economy amounts 40% of GDP and according to the official EU sources - 57% of GDP;  Ukraine: 50 % of workers are in the informal sector;  officially informal workers have fundamental rights at work, but for realization of these rights a lot of efforts need to be done, incl., TU.

3.  Self employed workers (subjects of entrepreneurial business, private entrepreneurs etc.);  Home workers (accountants, IT software authors, teleworkers etc.);  workers of enterprises and organizations covered by civil agreements: they receive official minimum wage together with undeclared wage (“in envelope”);  Migrant workers (both emigrants and immigrants);  Child and minors labor.

4.  Informal Economy has global effects;  financial – economic crisis caused decrease in job and staff reduction ;  as a result large amount of former workers of formal sector came to be in informal sector;  Ukrainian immigrants abroad.

5.  There are 16 to 20 millions of ukrainians living abroad, (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine);  The main sectors of employment are: nursing, baby - sitting, house keeping service, construction, hotel and restaurant services sector, work of seasonal nature;  Tendency to the expantion of the labour market and fields of employment for ukrainians abroad.

6.  Migrant workers seek practical help, such as: job placement and retirement plan;  VOST is studying the situation of Ukrainian migrants and establishes contacts with representatives of the church, communities and TU of such countries as Portugal, Italy and Spain.

7.  VOST took part in the project ITUC-PERC on informal economy;  New approaches and methods of work must be applied to the informal economy – this means making (bringing) changes to the Legislation;  VOST insists on the Trade – Union reform by means of social elections in Ukraine.

8.  Members of BO of informal sector can be: self – employed workers, workers of enterprises, institutions, organizations, where traditional TU relations do not exist, are distorted or replaced by unusual to employees relations (civil agreements, contracts between entrepreneurship agents, etc. ). Besides that, members can be as well workers to whom Labour Legislation is not extended in specific measure (individual members, migrant workers, pensioners, “secret” members of TU, who are not declared to the employer, etc.).

9.  How to work with people engaged by informal sector to whom traditional labour relationship can not be applied?