Romania - Social partners ask Minister of Labour to resign - January 19, 2011

Leaders of union confederations and employers’ associations have both asked for the resignation of the Minister of Labour, Ioan Botis. They are highly dissatisfied with the way negotiations took place on the new Labour Code. The minister blocked any resolution on talks over the Code, the President of the ALFA Cartel union confederation, Bogdan Hossu, declared. He said that there were many issues with the new Code to be solved, related to working time and termination of employment but also to the right to strike, and voiced his belief that Parliament would not vote such a project.

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This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.