Moldovan official journal roundup for 18 August

Chisinau, 17 August /MOLDPRES/- The law on amending and supplementing the Labor Code will be published in the Official Journal of Moldova on 18 August.

Under the amendments, the employees will be required to take at least 14 days of leave annually, the rest of the period being cumulated with next year’s leave. Also, the employer will be required to issue a certificate on work to the employee free of charge.

Another provision stipulates that the employer’s order on termination of the individual contract shall be notified to the employee and signed at the latest on the date of dismissal.

Also, the Labor Code will be supplemented by a new article regulating the temporary impossibility of continuing the production activity by an employee or a group of employees. An article was also included, which sees that the remuneration of stationary time for reasons not dependent on the employer or employee, except for the period of technical unemployment, shall be made at least 2/3 of basic salary per unit of time for the employee, but not less than a salary per unit of time in force.

The code also provides for some regulations of technical unemployment that will be reduced from six to four months. Employees will get 50 per cent of their basic salary, so far this indicator is 75 per cent.

Amendments to the code see that pregnant women, those who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding will be removed from night work by being employed in a day job while maintaining the average wage at the previous workplace.

The amendments in the Labor Code will enter into force upon publication in the Official Journal.

(Reporter A. Zara, editor M. Jantovan)