Romania has published its preliminary draft law to transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive into national legislation, setting out how pay transparency...

The most important specifications of the law that came into force on October 3rd, amending and completing the Labour Code, are the following:

Starting July 2026, employers must handle sick pay recalculations differently when employee illness spans multiple months and exceeds certain day thresholds. The new regulation eliminates retroactive declaration requirements and applies to both new cases and illnesses that began before the implementation date.

Angajatorii pot păstra contractele individuale de muncă în format electronic, dar nu orice copie digitală este acceptabilă. Descoperă cerințele legale specifice pentru semnătura electronică și certificarea conformității cu originalul, precum și cine are autoritatea de a efectua această certificare.

Employers must maintain individual employment contracts at the workplace, but electronic storage is now permitted under specific conditions. The electronic copy requires more than simple scanning—it must be electronically signed and certified as a true copy by the employer's legal representative or authorized person. This requirement establishes clear standards for digital record-keeping compliance in employment documentation.

Starting July 1, 2026, Romania introduces a new calculation method for medical leave benefits that extend across multiple months. When sick leave crosses into a new month and exceeds the 7-day or 8-14 day thresholds, the resulting benefit differences will be included in the income of the month they are determined, rather than being declared retroactively.

Romania has recently amended its classification of occupations and published it in the Official Gazette dated April 4, 2017.

Governmental Emergency Ordinance no. 26/2019 entered into force on 23 April 2019 bringing changes to the Romanian Labour Code.

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The employer may monitor the employee's communications at the workplace under certain conditions.

The Romanian Government came up with a balanced decision affecting the minimum wage per industry with afflictions to a handful of industries and benefits to others.

The Romanian Government has adopted an emergency ordinance on 9th of November 2018 which provides for the amendment of the Labour Code.

The Pay Transparency Directive introduces new requirements for employers regarding pay confidentiality clauses while stopping short of mandating full disclosure of individual salaries. Employers must now prepare to justify pay differences using objective criteria and review their internal policies on pay confidentiality once the directive is transposed into national law.

Romania and the United States have established a bilateral social security agreement that fundamentally changes how cross-border workers and retirees access pension benefits between the two nations.

Ministerul Muncii a stabilit noi criterii pentru includerea ocupațiilor deficitare pe lista folosită la recrutarea lucrătorilor din afara UE, relaxând pragurile minime de la 20 la 10 contracte active și avize de angajare. Ocupațiile eligibile trebuie să înregistreze posturi vacante greu de ocupat și un nivel minim de angajări de lucrători străini, iar angajatorii pot transmite propuneri motivate prin platforma WorkinRomania.gov.ro.

Starting July 1, 2026, Romania will implement significant changes to its minimum wage policy, raising the gross minimum salary while simultaneously reducing tax exemption benefits. These adjustments will impact both employers and employees across the country, affecting payroll calculations and net income for minimum wage workers.

Romania's Ministry of Labour has established new criteria for determining which occupations qualify as shortage occupations for recruiting workers from outside the EU. The updated rules lower minimum thresholds and introduce multiple pathways for occupations to be added to the list, including employer-submitted proposals through a dedicated platform.

The maximum value for daily meal tickets that can be awarded to employees while benefiting from a special fiscal regime has been increased from 30 RON (approximately 6 EUR) to 35 RON...

On Wednesday, January 13th, the Romanian Government voted on decision no. 4/13.01.2021 and subsequently published the decision in the National Gazette

This year's first issue of our newsletter, put together by our Bucharest Employment and Labour law team, provides an overview of the new updates on employee salary rights, namely: