minimum wage

Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă declared on Friday that there is political will on the part of the governing coalition to increase the minimum wage and the pension in 2023. "There is a possibility that starting from 2023, as we have…

PSD chairman Marcel Ciolacu said on Thursday evening, at the end of the negotiations with PNL, that an agreement was reached for an invested government on Thursday, but it has not been established yet which party will give the first prime…

The Parliament has passed a law initiated by 37 MPs from all parties, which introduces the differentiated minimum wage for employees in Romania , depending on their education. Therefore, an employee with completed higher education and who…

The new Orban Government has announced in a Facebook post that the minimum wage in Romania might increase by 7.2% in 2020. The increase might be RON 149.7 in gross and the net rise - RON 83 from RON 1,346, RON 17 less compared to the pledge…

Interim PM Viorica Dăncilă has announced the Government will increase the minimum wage by RON 100, by government resolution. She argued she will not listen to Ludovic Orban who is urging her not to adopt the bill, but "will listen to the…

The Parliament plenary sitting, joint session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, has voted on Friday the consolidated state budget for 2019, with 275 votes for, 122 against and 2 abstentions. Among the main amendments to the…

Almost 5 out of 10 employers would proceed to lay-offs, according to a survey conducted by the National Council for Small and Medium Sized Companies (CNIPMMR). The managers say they cannot pay the minimum wages increased since January 1,…

The Government adopted Friday evening the emergency ordinance on tax amendments. Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici and Darius Vâlcov, adviser of Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă, presented the main provisions of the normative act. “A…

The Government is to adopt on Friday the draft decision on the gross minimum wage. Although it has promised to increase the minimum wage for employees with seniority of 15 years and for those with higher education to the level of RON 2,350,…

The Foreign Investors Council (FIC) has signaled in the past 2-3 years that its members are anticipating increasing strains on the Romanian labour market because starting with 2015-2016 our members have reported increasing problems in…