Legal frame of strikes in the current legislative configuration in Romania Cover Image

Reglementarea juridică a grevelor în actuala configurație legislativă din România
Legal frame of strikes in the current legislative configuration in Romania

Author(s): Aurelia Gidro
Subject(s): Labour and Social Security Law
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: collective labour dispute; strike; political strike.

Summary/Abstract: After analyzing the plurality of conditions that must be complied with in order to legally initiate a strike, the authors acknowledge that the Romanian legislation is so restrictive that the right to initiate a strike is practically nothing but a constitutional statement because the current applicable law in force (Law no. 62/2011) actually blocks the opportunity of those entitled to use the strike as means of fight (protest). The laws that regulated the strike and the right to a strike after the fall of communism in Romania (Law no. 15/1991 and Law no. 168/1999) also revealed a certain amount of formalism which became excessive under the current settlement of regulations, intolerably multiplying the reasons of illegality related to a strike. The authors of the present study believe that the legitimacy and the content of the political strike notion must be imperatively reviewed.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 20-32
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian