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ARTICLE · 27 JUNE 2013

New Proposals For Amending The Romanian Labour Code

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Only one year from the latest important changes to the Romanian Labour Code, one of the country's biggest trade unions drafted a project for amending again the Labour Code.

RomaniaEmployment and HR
Amalia Surugiu
Amalia Surugiu
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Not happy with the latest amendments to the Labour Code, trade unions are striving to change the situation in their favour.

Employees against employers

Only one year from the latest important changes to the Romanian Labour Code, one of the country's biggest trade unions drafted a project for amending again the Labour Code. The project is co-financed by the European Social Found though the Operational Programme for Human Resources Development 2007 - 2013.

The trade unions see the changes from 2011 as favourable to employ ers and are trying to bring the balance back in their favour.

Main changes proposed

First, one of the main changes is related to the value of the minimum wage on the economy, aiming to increase its value to be equal or higher than 50% of the value of the medium net salary communicated by the National Statistics Institute. According to the project, the minimum gross salary should exceed RON 1,050.

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