It means that wages for the first half of the month (15 calendar days) must be paid from 16 to 22, and for the second one from 1 to 7 days. In case, the day of payment of wages coincides with the weekend, festive or non-working day, wages are paid the day before.

However, specific wage arrears are set by enterprises themselves in a collective agreement or by an employer's normative act, agreed with the electoral body of the primary trade union organization or another authorized representative for the labor collective body (and in the absence of such bodies - representatives elected and authorized by the labor collective).

Thus, the Labor Code defines the requirement for the minimum number of wage payments per month (at least two), which the employer is obliged to observe when determining the payment period of wages. At the same time, the employer has the right to pay salary more than twice (for example, once a week).

Pay attention that according to Art. 16 of the Labor Code of Ukraine, provisions of the collective agreement, which worsen the position of employees in comparison with the current legislation and agreements, are not lawfull.

Therefore, the establishment by the employer in the documents regulating the frequency and timing of payment of wages, the conditions for payment of wages once a month is unlawful, since according to Art. 97 of the Labor Code, the owner or an authorized body or individual does not have the right to unilaterally make decisions on wages that worsen the conditions established by law.

Thus, the payment of wages at least twice a month is the responsibility of the employer, which he must perform irrespective of the employee's consent to receive wages once a month.

Even if there are statements of employees asking for salaries to be paid once a month, the payment of wages in this way is a violation of labor legislation. After all, in this case, the requirement to pay at least 2 times a month due to a period of time that does not exceed 16 calendar days will be violated.

In cases of violation of the established time limits for payment of wages, the employer is obliged to compensate employees for the loss of their wages in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Compensation to Citizens for Loss of Income in Connection with Violation of Their Payment Periods".

For breach of the established terms, the payment of salaries and other payments provided for by the labor legislation to employees for more than one month and payment of the sum not fully, Article 265 of the Code of Labor Law of Ukraine provides fines in the amount of three times the minimum salary established by law for the month of detection of violation.