The High Court of Justice of Romania established in Decision
no.34/2016, published in the Official Monitor no.18 dated 9 January
2017, that a dismissal decision which an employer communicates by
e-mail is validly communicated.
Communication by e-mail of the dismissal decision issued as per
the Labour Code is conditioned by the following: the employee has
communicated to the employer his/her e-mail address and among the
same parties there is a stable practice concerning the use of
e-mail as a means of communication.
Further, it was clarified by means of this decision that it is
not necessary for the employee to confirm the receipt of the
respective e-mail. As such, the communication of the dismissal
decision will be considered to have been validly carried out in the
absence of a confirmation of receipt on the part of the employee,
if prior to and subsequent to the dismissal decision communicated
by e-mail no irregularity was announced by the employee with
respect to
