The article analyzes the problem of the penalty clause in individual employment contracts, considering the specificity of the employment relations and the way of regulating the patrimonial liability of the employee in the Labour Code. The analysis contains the relevant judgments of the Constitutional Court and the High Court of Cassation and Justice in the field.

Employee training is a necessity on the labor market, not only in Romania, but throughout the world. The employer, according to the Labor Code, is obliged to send the employees to training once every 2 or 3 years depending on the number of employees. He also has the obligation, according to the same Code, as we know, if he has more than 21 employees to work out annually and apply training plans. Artificial Intelligence is, and remains, ...

This paper analyzes the specific regulatory conditions of a new type of contract – the internship contract, regulated this year by Law no. 177/2018. The provisions on the conclusion, suspension and termination of the contract, the rights and obligations of the parties, the assessment of the intern’s work, the duties of the mentor and other specific institutions are dealt with in detail. We emphasize that internship was already use...

A recent regulatory act, applicable next year, governs in a unitary manner a series of benefits granted to employees in the form of vouchers, which include meal vouchers, gift vouchers, nursery vouchers, cultural vouchers and holiday vouchers. The new provisions outline an appropriate legal framework for providing such benefits both on paper and in electronic form.

Law no. 69/2000 regulates in the case of performance sportsmen the possibility of performing the activities within a sports structure by concluding either an individual labor contract or a sportive activity contract. This legal solution gives birth to confusions regarding the juridical regime applicable.

According to the legal regulations from the Labour Code, moral damages can be granted only if the employee is injured by the employer during the execution of the individual labour contract. The acknowledgement of moral damages and the determination of the amount of moral damages in the labour disputes may be a challenge just as it is in the case of civil litigations. The court has the task of ordering the administration of the appropriate evid...

In the following, we will analyze some theoretical and practical aspects related to the disciplinary sanction of the written warning, and we will also refer to the need to conduct a disciplinary investigation in case of a written warning.  Keywords: ...

Labour Code provides under Art. 137 (4) the possibility of granting the weekly rest days cumulatively, after a continuous work period that may not exceed 14 calendar days, with the authorization of the territorial labour inspectorate and the approval of the union or, by case, of the employees’ representatives. The conditions and the procedure of the approval of the territorial labour inspectorate for granting the weekly rest days cumul...

The study presents two recent solutions of the CJEU in interpreting some of the provisions of Directive no. 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, regarding the internal regulations of an undertaking prohibiting workers from bearing visible signs of political, philosophical or religious nature at work, and the request of a client of the employer that the work should not be performed by a ...

This study aims to draw attention to legislative inconsistencies that exist in the matter of suspension of work, by comparatively analyzing statutory regulations of professional categories which were considered relevant to the intended purpose. The analysis does not have as a target the whole institution suspension of work, only that segment on suspension from office due to involvement of the person in criminal investigation and only those si...