The rapidly changing world of work requires educational and training adaptability, and new technologies offer innovative ways to meet this imperative. Vocational training is becoming increasingly necessary to adapt workers to new technologies. Thus, lifelong learning is becoming more and more flexible thanks to new innovations such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Robo...

The new amendments and completions to the Labour Code brought by the adoption of Law no. 283/2022 required the adoption of a new framework model of the individual employment contract. It was established by the Order of the Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity no. 2171/2022 and is made available to employees and employers by publication on the website of the Labour Inspection. For the proper development of labour relations, th...

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 ...

The mechanism of cooperation between students or fresh graduates, on the one hand, and employers (companies and legal entities set up for the purpose of profit), on the other hand, is known and used in many countries of the world. Recently, through Law no. 176/2018 was legalized also in Romania this new sort of legal relationship. The emergence of this normative act has generated sometimes divergent views on opportunity, ...