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Labor Code

The individual employment contract is concluded based on the consent of the parties, in writing, in Romanian, no later than the day before the employee starts working. The obligation to conclude the individual employment contract in writing and hand over a copy to the employee rests with the employer.
Before starting work, the individual employment contract is registered in the General Register of Employees, no later than the day before the start of activity.

A person can only be employed based on a medical certificate, which confirms that the person in question is fit to perform that work. Failure to meet this condition renders the individual employment contract null and void.

The employment of young people under the age of 15 is prohibited. The individual acquires the capacity to work upon reaching the age of 16.
Young people who have reached the age of 15 can be employed based on the individual employment contract with the consent of their parents or legal representatives, only if the work performed does not endanger their health and professional training.

"Annual leave"

Annual paid leave is guaranteed to all employees.

  • Minimum duration - 20 working days

  • The duration of the vacation does not include public holidays when work is not performed and paid free days

The period of medical leave; maternity leave, maternity risk leave and leave for caring for the sick child are considered periods of performed activity.

  • The vacation is taken every year. If not taken, the employer is obliged to grant the untaken vacation within a period of 18 months starting with the year following the one in which the right to annual vacation was born

  • Cash compensation - only in case of termination of the individual employment contract

  • Employees who work in harsh, dangerous or harmful conditions, the blind, other disabled people and young people under the age of 18 Săgeata dreapta additional vacation of at least 3 working days.

  • The employee is obliged to take the vacation in kind.

  • The vacation can be interrupted, at the employee's request, for objective reasons. The employer can recall the employee from vacation, bearing all related expenses.

  • The vacation allowance represents the daily average of the salary rights from the last 3 months prior to the one in which the vacation is taken, multiplied by the number of vacation days.