The article discusses the effects of the employee’s absences, especially the unmotivated ones, on the individual employment contract and disciplinary liability. In addition to the analysis of the way in which the employer regulates the conditions of unjustified absences, in the internal documents, the article also presents other types of absences regulated by the Labour Code as well as thestrategies available to the employer to reduce th...

The possibility of social partners concluding agreements, conventions, understandings, other than the collective labor contract, was regulated for the first time by Law no. 62/2011 of social dialogue. The original normative act, established in art. 153 the general framework in which these legal acts could be concluded. In the context of Law no. 367/2022 on social dialogue, the legislator kept the previous legal approach, adding two more import...

The interpretation of legal norms represents the process by which their meaning is determined in order to apply them in practice. This process is essential in any legal system, including Romanian law, because it allows the settlement of legal issues and ensures consistency in the application of legal norms. In Romanian law, the interpretation of legal norms is carried out by the authorities and the courts, in the proceedings. In this regard, t...

This article is intended to present and analyze the legal provisions regarding the registration of collective labor contracts, in order to avoid the refusal of the registration of collective labor contracts by the competent authority. Thus, the faster resolution of registration of collective labor contracts, can look at issues related to the summoning of interested parties to participate in the negotiation, power of attorney granted in order ...

The article presents the legal grounds on which this type of activity can be performed and presents aspects of the malfunction of the regulations contained in Government Ordinance no. 21/2023. In carrying out his activity, the professional cultural worker concludes contracts for the assignment of patrimonial rights relating to copyright or a contract for carrying out cultural activity, the condition being registration as a professional cultur...

Daily rest and weekly rest are forms of rest time, each with its own physiognomy and purpose. At the same time, they constitute employee/worker rights that must be strictly respected by the employer. The rule is that the daily rest precedes the weekly; the first does not intersect with the second, but they are cumulative as ruled by the Court of Justice of the European Union by the Decision of March 2, 2023.

The article analyzes, starting from the European legislation, the notions of working time and rest time as well as the less common situations that require a classification in one of these two notions. Moreover, the analysis of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union includes the discussion of concrete situations which have raised real problems of interpretation of the law inu this field, demonstrating that these two notions r...

In recent years, there has been a need to balance family and work life to make modern workplaces more responsive to increasingly diverse family needs. We see this type of leave as an important step towards that balance. Family care leave is a leave that protects the worker and helps them keep their job. It can be granted by the sick person’s oncologist to the worker’s relative to provide care or support.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has relatively recently issued judgments on the interpretation of the notion of “working time” in art. 2 of Directive no. 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time. The judgments are aimed at clarifying the time spent by a worker for participating in professional training courses organized by the employer, outside of the usual time and place of work, and, on the other h...

The law provides for the granting of remunerative interest or penalty interest in relation to the specificity of each other, but in order to grant them, a court decision is needed. At the same time, it appears irrelevant that the principal obligation is paid in instalments, the interest being due regardless of whether or not the obligations are fulfilled uno ictu, this by virtue of the principle of full compensation of the damage.U