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Factsheet for measure RO-2020-14/1190 – measures in Romania
Country | Romania , applies nationwide |
Time period | Open ended, started on 31 March 2020 |
Context | COVID-19 |
Type | Other initiatives or policies |
Category |
Protection of workers, adaptation of workplace
– Changes of working hours or work arrangements |
Author | Victoria Stoiciu (European Institute of Romania) and Eurofound |
Measure added | 27 September 2020 (updated 05 February 2021) |
In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, the Council of Banking Employers of Romania and the Federation Banking and Insurance Trade Unions have agreed upon a set of measure in order to ensure the prevention of employees against COVID-19, protection of the workplaces and employees and ensuring the continuity of the activity.
The measure consist in a series of measure commonly agreed between the social partners (representative employers organization and representative trade union federation) in the banking and insurance sector, as it follows:
The trade union end employers agreed to jointly monitor the implementation of measures and their adaption to new evolutions.
All the employees in the banking and insurance sector - about 80,000 people.
Workers | Businesses | Citizens |
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Employees in standard employment
|
Does not apply to businesses | Does not apply to citizens |
Actors | Funding |
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Social partners jointly
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Companies
No special funding required |
Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:
Trade unions | Employers' organisations | |
---|---|---|
Role | Agreed (outcome) incl. social partner initiative | Agreed (outcome) incl. social partner initiative |
Form | Direct consultation outside a formal body | Direct consultation outside a formal body |
Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:
This is a social partners initiative. It was designed, negotiated and agreed jointly by the Council of Employers of the Banking sector and the Federation of Banking and Insurance Trade Unions.
This is a initiative of social partners and the outcome of their negotiation.
This case is sector-specific
Economic area | Sector (NACE level 2) |
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K - Financial And Insurance Activities | K64 Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding |
K65 Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security | |
K66 Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities |
This case is not occupation-specific.
Citation
Eurofound (2020), Measures for protecting the employees in the banking sector, measure RO-2020-14/1190 (measures in Romania), EU PolicyWatch, Dublin, https://static.eurofound.europa.eu/covid19db/cases/RO-2020-14_1190.html
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