Greece’s recent decision to regulate a six-day work week has sparked international controversy and is being widely debated in the global press. In Romania, the six-day work week exists unofficially and illegally in numerous enterprises, as reflected in reports from labor inspectorates and testimonies from employees in various sectors. This trend is predominantly noticeable in...
In the context of employment relations, harassment represents a form of inappropriate and illegal behavior manifested through repeated and systematic actions or omissions, aimed at or resulting in affecting a person’s dignity and creating a hostile, degrading, humiliating, intimidating, or offensive environment. Disciplinary measures are legal actions taken by the employer to ensure compliance with...
The provisions of the Labor Code stipulate the employee’s right to notice in the case of dismissals, which consists of the period of time that the employer must provide to the employees before the actual termination of the employment contract. The notice period cannot be less than 20 working days, being conceived as support for...
The benefits of balancing private life and professional activity can bring improvements on various fronts, such as mental health, physical health, minimizing work-related stress, increasing attention, boosting commitment, and productivity in the workplace. To offer employees the possibility of a much more efficient rhythm, we present the following solutions: Flexibility in work. According to the...
Disciplinary sanctioning of employees. The importance of Internal Regulations in the company. Disciplinary sanctioning of employees is a very important topic in the business and work environment because it is a way used by employers to enforce rules and norms within the company. Sanctioning employees refers to the application of punitive measures against those...
In a decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR), it is provided that the current version of the Labor Code no longer allows imputation decisions to be used by employers to withhold part of salary rights due to damages caused by an employee. Thus, in the hypothesis where the employee has not given consent...
The Labor Code provides, in Article 16, the possibility of using electronic signatures for individual employment contracts, their additional acts, as well as for other documents in the field of labor relations (annexes, job descriptions, etc.). In this regard, the contracting parties may choose to use advanced or qualified electronic signatures in addition to handwritten...
The distribution of working hours during the week is usually uniform – eight hours per day for five days, with two days of rest, and the minimum weekly rest period is 48 consecutive hours, which are typically on Saturdays and Sundays. If work does not follow this pattern, meaning that the employee works on weekends...
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