Non-payment of salaries to teachers: Prosecutor’s Office of Odesa region opens proceedings
19 November 2025 19:45
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The Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office has announced the launch of a pre-trial investigation into the non-payment of salaries to teachers. The head of the Verkhovna Rada’s Tax Committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, wrote about this on his Facebook page on November 19.
He also published a photo of an official letter from the department along with the post.
As stated in the document, on November 14, 2025, investigators of the Podilskyi District Police Department of the Main Department of the National Police in Odesa Oblast opened criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Article 175 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (non-payment of wages, scholarships, pensions or other statutory payments) under the circumstances described in the appeal.
The Podil District Prosecutor’s Office is in charge of the case. The office emphasizes that the pre-trial investigation is ongoing, and the regional prosecutor’s office is responsible for supervising compliance with the law during the investigation.
The details of the case have not been disclosed yet, but the very qualification of the article indicates that the subject of the investigation concerns violations of labor rights or delays in mandatory payments.
As a reminder, on November 4, Danylo Hetmantsev, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy, wrote on his Facebook page that teachers in Odesa region did not receive the government-guaranteed additional payment of UAH 2600.
He received an appeal from teachers from Odesa region. They say that since September, the promised monthly supplement of UAH 2600, provided for by the government resolution, has not been received. Or it was paid selectively without any explanation,” the MP said.
Additional payment for teachers in 2025: details
The government’s supplemental payment to school teachers in 2025 is provided for by a Cabinet of Ministers resolution.
Starting January 1, 2025, the government established a fixed monthly allowance of UAH 1300 (gross) for teachers, and starting September 1, 2025, it was increased to UAH 2600 gross.
Teachers will be paid until the end of martial law and until the end of the calendar year in which it is canceled or terminated. A separate increase is envisaged for frontline communities: up to approximately UAH 5200 gross per rate (approximately UAH 4000 per person), which should partially compensate for the increased risks and burden.
All teaching staff of state and municipal general secondary education institutions are entitled to the supplement. The allowance is calculated automatically, without any applications from teachers, and is paid in proportion to the actual teaching load and working conditions (full or part-time, part-time, etc.). Funding is provided at the expense of the educational subvention allocated to communities. Thus, the technical implementation of payments takes place at the level of local financial authorities and accounting departments of educational institutions.
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Salary issue in Ukrainian pedagogy: what you need to know
Back in February 2025, Minister of Education Oksen Lisovyi said on camera that at least UAH 270 billion was needed to simultaneously raise salaries for all categories of teachers – preschool, general education, vocational education, and higher education. And now the ministry “cannot find the source of these funds.”
At the same time, almost simultaneously with this statement, he reported to the parliament on his two years as head of the ministry and said that teachers’ salaries had been raised by 15%. However, there was a nuance.
In real life, teachers’ salaries turned out to be 2000 hryvnias lower than planned. Even with the introduction of the so-called “teacher’s thousand,” many educators received lower payments in 2025 than in 2024 due to a reduction in bonuses for the prestige of their work.
And more recently, on October 29, Lisovyi again faced criticism from Ukrainians over payments to teachers.
The minister announced that the Cabinet of Ministers had updated Resolution No. 800, introducing a unified state platform for the professional development of teachers. It will collect accredited providers, programs, certificates, and licenses, and supervision will be officially counted as part of professional development.
Under Lisovyi’s Facebook post, hundreds of educators left critical comments, accusing him of imitating reforms and “money passing teachers by.”
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