After having failed to gain enough votes on 5 and 9 November 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament approved an amendment to the Labor Code () banning sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination at work on 12 November 2015.Ukraine eschews visa-free EU travel by blocking law to protect gay people, The Guardian (5 November 2015)Ukraine finally passes anti-bias law, a prerequisite for visa-free travel to EU, Kyiv Post (12 November 2015)Ukraine passes anti-discrimination law, BBC News (12 November 2015)Ukrainian parliament will never back same-sex marriages - speaker, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2015)</ref> A similar law (that law would have barred employers from rejecting workers based on their sexual orientation) was indefinitely postponed on 14 May 2013. The law passed on 12 November 2015 was an EU requirement for Ukraine to move forward in its application for visa-free travel to the Schengen Area. Before the vote of the bill, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman strongly spoke out against same-sex marriage.