Moldovan trade unions declare against draft law on moratorium on state control

Chisinau, 10 February /MOLDPRES/  - The National Trade Unions Confederation (CNSM) today declared against a draft law on moratorium on state control, set by the government on 3 February.

“We do not understand the enforcement of the moratorium on state control, which concerns the State Labour Inspectorate, which is meant to ensure the observance of international, legislative documents and other normative acts referring to the individual labour contracts. The working out of such a legislative act, without taking into account the wage earners’ fundamental rights, does not fit the principles of a state based on the rule of law or even runs counter them,” a CNSM press release says.  

The National Trade Unions Confederation of Moldova is firmly sure that no grounded argument can be brought to support the establishing of the moratorium on the state control, which will highly endanger the human life at the working place, or will even lead to an increase in labour accidents, including the applying of unregistered labour,” the communiqué also says.

Trade unions express conviction that the Moldovan parliament will not allow setting the moratorium on state control, as this action is aimed at ensuring the observance of the fundamental rights of the wage earners, as well as of the provisions of the international acts, which represents a commitment of Moldova, assumed, first of all, before the International Labour Organisation.  

On 3 February, the government approved a draft law on moratorium on state controls at enterprises for a three-month period. The draft sees ensuring a friendly framework for developing the business environment, legislative and institutional optimization of state controls. Prime Minister Pavel Filip said the document’s goal was to limit abusive interventions by control bodies against private persons and legal entities carrying out the entrepreneurial activity in Moldova. The concerned draft is to be considered in parliament.

(Reporter D. Moraru, editor L. Alcaza)