Latest Changes In Romanian Employment Legislation You Need To Know About

Despite many proposals and initiatives, mostly by large-scale union organizations, neither 2015, nor the first quarter of 2016 brought major changes in this field. Still, a few recent amendments are worth mentioning, as they could impact your company's employment relations.

Union matters

Law 1/2016 amending Law 62/2011 on social dialogue and Constitutional Court Decision 814/2015 striking down art. 60 para (1) letter g) of the Labor Code:

• At the union's request and with their members' consent, employers are now bound to collect the membership fees, through payroll (up until now, employers had to also agree to this.)
• The non-representative union at company-level may now indirectly become representative, through affiliation to an industry-level representative federation, even if the employees had duly elected representative persons for collective bargaining and dealings with the employer.