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The law on the public pension system, re-examined after the Constitutional Court ruled it is unconstitutional, has been rejected by the Senate on Wednesday, after failing to get the needed votes. 67 senators voted in favour and 22…

Hundreds of trade unionists have staged protests on Tuesday, in front of the Government building. The unionists come from Dacia, Ford plants, from the chemical and navel industries and request the amendment of the labour legislation in…

The Nestle Timisoara employees will stage a protest on Friday, in front of the company’s central offices in Bucharest, if they do not receive the requested compensatory packages, some of them threatening to go on hunger strike, a release…

Around 90,000 children in Romania have both parents left to work abroad, Labour minister Marius Budai told a press conference on Wednesday. The minister claimed that authorities are trying to develop projects, to create jobs in order to…

President Klaus Iohannis has sent a letter to Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă on Thursday announcing the rejection of the appointment of Lia Olguta Vasilescu as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Public…

The emergency ordinance introducing new taxes will be discussed in an extraordinary Government sitting on Friday, until then the text is subject to amendments by the Finance Ministry, digi24.ro reports. Initially, sources said the ordinance…

PSD chairman Liviu Dragnea has mentioned an investment fund of EUR 10 billion within the party’s Executive Committee held on Monday. The statement comes amid the information that the Government has decided to supplement the budget of the…

The Government has approved on Wednesday the draft of the Pensions Law, which is to reach the Parliament and approved in emergency procedure, Labour Minister Lia Olguta Vasilescu announced. The pension point will reach RON 1,265 in 2019,…

Labour Minister, Lia Olguta Vasilescu, said Monday evening, for Antena 3 TV private broadcaster, that the Government is working  on a decision to increase the minimum wage to RON 2,050, as of January 1, 2019. “We are working on a…

After Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici lobbied against the minimum wage several days ago, Labour Minister Olguta Vasilescu stated that Teodorovici was just expressing a personal opinion, closer to the business environment, yet stressing…