Romania: collective bargaining institutions under attack

This article examines the impact of the recession on collective bargaining in Romania, focusing on legislative changes and developments in the public health care and the construction sectors. Prior to the recession, Romania had a legal system that supported dialogue between trade unions, employers a...

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Published in:Transfer (Brussels, Belgium) Belgium), 2013-05, Vol.19 (2), p.227-237
Main Author: Trif, Aurora
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collective agreements
Collective bargaining
Health care
Labour relations
Legal systems
Public health
Recession
Romania
Trade unions
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Summary:This article examines the impact of the recession on collective bargaining in Romania, focusing on legislative changes and developments in the public health care and the construction sectors. Prior to the recession, Romania had a legal system that supported dialogue between trade unions, employers and the government, resulting in widespread collective bargaining at all levels. In 2011, the government scrapped all collective agreements and changed, without parliamentary debate, the main labour laws, making it impossible to have cross-sectoral collective agreements and far more difficult to negotiate collective agreements at the sectoral, multi-employer and company levels. The recession was thus used by the centre-right government as a pretext to reform the industrial relations system.
ISSN:1024-2589
1996-7284
DOI:10.1177/1024258913480600