Fixed term contracts remain the exception

‘So we are on the last place in the EU with 1.1 percent, while, for example, Poland has 27 percent share. Why? Why does Poland have more employment contracts and more incomes to the state budget? Because the labour laws are much more flexible and gives a person the possibility to find employment, to have two jobs, to be able to move from one place to another more easily, it is not as rigid as it is in our country’, Emil Boc said.

The Prime Minister also said that some countries such as Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Britain, have a time limit regarding the maximum duration of a single contract of indefinite duration.

Emil Boc said that signing a fixed-term employment contract would remain the exception.

‘The main focus is and will remain the employment contract of indefinite duration’, the Prime Minister said.

Emil Boc said that the collective work agreements would require a special law that would be drafted after the new Labour Code was approved.

‘Collective employment contracts, including those on national level, remain in force this year; no changes will be applied. In 2012, the new law will establish this procedure. The National Union for the Progress of Romania put forward this proposal and we have accepted it because trade unions feared that the new Labour Code would abolish work contracts. No, they will not be abolished. They will be the subject of the law of collective employment agreements’, Prime Minister Emil Boc said.

The Chief Executive had a meeting on Tuesday with the party members that form the government coalition, after the previous day the coalition leaders had decided that the new Labor Code should be adopted when the government took responsibility for it.

Translated by: Iris Butnariu

MTTLC, Bucharest University