Bogdan Tudorache

The members of the Concordia Employers’ Confederation call on the Government and Parliament for a clear legislative framework, ensuring, as far as possible, the continuity of economic activity and when it is necessary to suspend it, such measure should be only taken in direct consultation with the industries concerned, to minimize the impact of these measures.

Concordia Employers’ Confederation represents 10 important economic sectors.

”In order to be able to continue to provide the necessary services to the population (supply of food and consumer goods, energy, utilities and fuels, transport of goods, banking services, to be able to keep afloat the activity of important industries already affected by the general economic landscape (automotive, beer production) and to limit losses in industries already severely affected by the pandemic, either by closing down the decision-making activity of the authorities or by closely linking them (hotel industry, film production), first of all a minimum predictability on restrictive measures (avoid day-to-day application, evolution scenarios are already known),” say Concordia officials.

There is also need for ”clarity on measures and rules adopted – we are already facing an abundance of rules and it is necessary that be clarified quickly when the rules leave room for interpretation and a degree of proportionality of the measures or restrictive, which must be objectively correlated with the epidemiological situation in each county, starting from generally known indicators,” the association shows.

The Confederation also calls for more flexibility in organizing labor relations and supporting companies, in order to respond to the particular situations in each industry, as well as support from the statute for industries that are affected by the crisis, for their survival.

Thus, technical unemployment is required for affected employees, the waiver (on a temporary basis) of the need to conclude an addendum to the employment contract for telework, balancing the situation regarding the presence of workers at work in relation to days off for childcare and issuing a single law on pandemic crisis situations covering as many scenarios as possible.

At the same time, Concordia calls for the adoption of the law on electronic identification and reliable services for electronic transactions, the “Single Sign In” system for any public institution to provide online services to Romanian citizens, safely, updating the legislative framework (especially public procurement legislation) so as to enable and encourage the adoption of cloud technologies and the integration of various public applications through open standard technical interfaces.