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| Media Headlines 21/02/2011 |
| (2011-02-21) |
| Last updated: 2011-02-22 16:57 EET |
Recent talks on the new Labour Code in Romania are further evidence of the fact that the so-called social debate essentially boils down to a never-ending clash between the Government, on one side, and trade unions and employers’ associations, on the other.
Apparently unable to reach consensus regarding the much-debated new Labour Code bill, both sides stand their ground, showing no sign of being at any rate willing to compromise. Spearheading the Government’s standpoint in the debate, PM Emil Boc claims the bill is aimed at creating a more flexible labour market.
The Romanian PM gave assurances that people will be able to find employment faster and that measures would be taken against employers who use black market workforce. On the subject of layoffs, Emil Boc said the first criterion to be taken under advisement in assessing an employee would be performance. Conversely, unionists say the Labour Code provisions in the version drafted by the government are clearly to the disadvantage of employees, especially by the elimination of collective employment agreements at national level and the limitation of the length of individual employment agreements to 36 months.
The bone of contention, drawing on a delicate social topic, has found strong echoes in the Romanian press. The daily paper Romania Libera writes: “following a new round of talks, the government again put forward the first draft of the new Labour Code with only minor, insignificant changes”.
In response, writes Romania Libera, “trade union leaders threatened to radicalize their protests”. Under the headline “The brotherhood of trade unions and employers’ associations”, the daily paper Adevarul tries to provide an explanation for this unnatural alliance.
”Normally”, Adevarul writes, “the government needs to strike a balance between right-wing demands on behalf of employers and left-wing demands on the unionist side. Surprisingly, employers’ associations in Romania have switched from the right to the left, such that they share unionist views and reject the government’s project, although it favours them extensively.”
Nevertheless, the daily paper Adevarul provides a commonsensical explanation to an otherwise nonsensical fact: “The Romanian Labour Code is the litmus test that has brought to light the relationship between trade unions and employers’ associations. Behind this there is an entire set of laws accounting for the true reason for the alliance between the two factions.”
By and large, this translates into a common approach of trade unions and employers’ associations to the forthcoming changes to be made by the government to the Trade Unions Law and the Employers’ Associations Law.
Until then, PM Boc is caught on a head-on collision between trade unions and employers’ associations. Boc said the government may call for a vote of confidence in Parliament on its new Labour Code bill. As has become common practice in Romanian politics, the opposition might in turn seek a no-confidence vote in parliament.
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