Romania - Union law barrier for decent bargaining - February 28, 2018

According to a leader of trade union Cartel-ALFA, the law on trade union representation is so harsh that collective bargaining at national and sector levels is virtually impossible. The result is that only a small number of collective labour agreements at company level could be concluded. The law says trade unions must represent 50%+1 of the total company workforce. If they don’t have this proportion, collective agreements are negotiated by representatives who are usually chosen by the management of the company and are not negotiating in good faith. The labour inspectorate in December said there were 9,000 agreements, but only 2,000 are ‘real’ collective agreements negotiated by local trade unions. The other 7,000 are agreed by undefined ‘employee representatives’.

Read on: in English …

For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers or Nuria Ramos Martin, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Willy De Backer wdebacker@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. Since June 2013 readers can consult our archive and search through all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.euYou may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.

© ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2016. All rights reserved. We encourage the distribution of this newsletter and of the information it contains, for non-commercial purposes and provided the source is credited. The ETUI is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. The ETUI is financially supported by the European Union. The European Union is not responsible for any use made of the information contained in this publication.
This email is sent from www.etui.org.

Check Out WageIndicator's Newsletters on Gig Work

News Archive

Loading...