Labour minister yet to see unhappy employers

Labour Minister Marian S=rbu dismisses criticism from employers’ associations against the Labour Code. He argues the employers he has met so far told him they were not having too much trouble applying the normative act. “No employer has come to me and said “Here’s my problem,” or “I had to increase spending on work force” yet,” the minister said. The employers’ associations say the enforcement of the normative act as it is has caused an increase in red tape and in taxes, as well, because the civil conventions were dropped. They add they had agreed to a Code that was supposed to go through the Parliament, where it was possible to modify, and not to one enacted by Government’s taking of responsibility. “This Labour Code was brought to the attention of the employers’ associations and unions more than three years ago. I for one spent a year and a half negotiating with all the union organisations and employers’ associations, which are providing most of the critical feedback but signed on every page of the draft. Nobody said anything until the draft was enacted,” Marian S=rbu stated during the “Labour Code, role and efficiency in establishing a balance between the labour market and the market economy” Forum. ZF