American Chamber of Commerce in Romania
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Labor Market and Education
Co-chairman:
Name: Anca Grigorescu
Company: bpv GRIGORESCU STEFANICA
Coordinator:
Name: Letitia Pupazeanu
Phone: 021 312 48 34/031 226 24 26
Email: lpupazeanu@amcham.ro
The Labor, HR, Education main objectives are:
- To ensure a labor legislation matching the social and economic dynamics, responsive to employees’ and employers’ needs and expectations, fully compliant with EU regulations and guaranteeing balanced relationships between employees and employers;
- Increase graduates’ employment readiness and relevance at graduation through curricula up-dates, internships and private sector’s participation to formation programs, through delivery of courses by industry experts, visiting professors etc.
The Committee, through a dedicated Labor legislation task force elaborated and submitted to the Ministry of Labor a set of over 200 amendments to the labor legislation promoting a modern and more flexible labor legislation, a must for increasing Romania’s economic competitiveness and attractiveness, and for a healthy business environment.
The amendments advanced by AmCham Romania observe the EU Directives and are subsequent to the following principles:
- Flexible work agreements,
- Performance related to the conclusion and the termination of the employment contracts, with an emphasis on performance instead of social criteria in case of redundancy;
- Repeal of the provisions regarding the collective bargaining agreement at national level;
- Applicability of the collective bargaining agreements at branch/industry level to the signatory parties only;
- Removal of mandatory annual negotiation of collective bargaining agreements at unit level;
- Removal of representativeness transfer from one trade union organization to the others which are not representative by themselves;
- Equal treatment for the employees in public and private sectors; Simpler and clearer procedures.
The Committee elaborated in partnership with education stakeholders recommendations to the draft Education Law advocating for a relevant involvement of the private sector into the education process to ensure graduates’ employment readiness at graduation.
The Committee elaborated in partnership with education stakeholders recommendations to the draft Education Law advocating for a relevant involvement of the private sector into the education process to ensure graduates’ employment readiness at graduation.
Next meeting: 05/30/2012
