The Covid-19 pandemic, which led to the establishment of a state of emergency and alert on the territory of our country, also had a significant impact on labour law.The impact has determined the issuance of legal rules derogating from the legislation in force, with temporary applicability, corresponding to the duration of the health crisis. The aim of the legislature was to support employers as w...

The Covid-19 pandemic, which led to the establishment of a state of emergency and alert on the territory of our country, also had a significant impact on labour law. The impact has determined the issuance of legal rules derogating from the legislation in force, with temporary applicability, corresponding to the duration of the health crisis. The aim of the legislature was to support employers as well as employees so that they could cont...

The concept of human rights, as developed at the international level, serves as an important support for substantiating the idea of the existence of civil rights and freedoms. The concept of human rights has a much broader significance than that of civil rights, because human rights are universally valid rights, applicable to all human beings, while civil rights are, by their very name, specific to a certain group of people, namely the c...

When talking about labour laws, we are currently witnessing a revolution in the traditional way of working that is affecting all of us today. It involves a recognition of the importance of flexibility in individual employment relationships through the widespread use of telework. Apart from the advantage in terms of flexibility that teleworking offers in Romania, matters are not simple at all from the point of view of the applicable lega...

Starting from the most important similarities between the individual telework agreement and the individual work from home employment agreement, we want to point out, that as regards the differences, the most important one with many implications relating to other differences, which, moreover, was originally based on an important similarity linked to the place of work (an element which confers the specificity of work from home), we believ...

The administrative code adopted recently by GEO no. 57/2019, provides, finally, as a novelty for the Romanian public administration, the possibility of working at home only for the staff employed under a contract and not for the civil officers, as it is necessary to make a distinction between these who, are rather located in a „grey area”. The economics of the text of law refers to the common law regulations...

This particular individual labor contract raises problems in practice through differences in law enforcement for the Romanian employer party to such a contract with either a EU teleworker or a non-EU teleworker who works in the country of origin, as a rule – at his or her domicile (or at his/her place of residence) as well as in other places not organized by the employer – but also occasionally/ as an exception in...

Romania has recently taken a first step towards establishing an institutional and legal framework for teleworking programs, by proposing a bill aimed to regulate teleworking activities. The bill has been approved by the executive, which means that Romanian employees might soon be teleworking. At first sight, the process of regulating telework currently conducted on the Romanian labor market, is a major factor in developing the innovativ...