LAW NO. 12/2015 AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING LAW NO. 53/2003 REGARDING THE LABOR CODE, WAS PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF ROMANIA, PART I, NO. 52 OF THE 22ND OF JANUARY 2015.

The main changes applicable from the 25th of January 2015 are the following:
  • the wage received by the temporary employee for each mission cannot be lower than the wage received by the user’s employee who performs the same or an equivalent job;
  • in order to determine the duration of the annual leave, the following shall be considered as periods of activity:
    • the periods of temporary disability;
    • the periods of maternity leave;
    • the periods of leave in order to take care of the sick children;
    • the periods of maternal risk leave.

    If all these situations occur during the annual leave, it shall be interrupted and the employee shall beneficiates of the remaining days of the annual leave after ending any of the periods described above.

  • if the employee cannot perform completely or partially the annual leave in a current year, the employer shall be obliged to let the employee beneficiate of the annual leave’s remaining period, along 18 months starting with the following year of that in which the right to annual leave was granted;
  • the periods in which an employee requests the employer unpaid leave or is absent without reason from the workplace shall be deducted from the seniority.