KIEV, June 9 – The negative tendencies on the Ukrainian labor market will last for at least two-and-a-half to three more years, according to a forecast by Director of the State Employment Center and Chief of the Executive Directorate of the Fund of Compulsory State Social Unemployment Insurance, Volodymyr Halytsky.

"The labor market is rather inert. That's why the negative financial and economic tendencies on the labor market will last for at least two-and-a-half or three years," he said in Kiev on Tuesday.