Romania: Contract of Employment

Employers must maintain individual employment contracts at the workplace, but electronic storage is now permitted under specific conditions. The electronic copy requires more than simple scanning—it must be electronically signed and certified as a true copy by the employer's legal representative or authorized person. This requirement establishes clear standards for digital record-keeping compliance in employment documentation.

Romania's Ministry of Labour has established new criteria for determining which occupations qualify as shortage occupations for recruiting workers from outside the EU. The updated rules lower minimum thresholds and introduce multiple pathways for occupations to be added to the list, including employer-submitted proposals through a dedicated platform.

Starting July 2026, employers must handle sick pay recalculations differently when employee illness spans multiple months and exceeds certain day thresholds. The new regulation eliminates retroactive declaration requirements and applies to both new cases and illnesses that began before the implementation date.

In order to stimulate employment, the Romanian state offers employers a number of relatively easily accessible job incentive programmes.

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The basis of a manager's mandate is the company's trust. Naturally, when trust is broken, revocation follows irrespective of misconduct.

By amending the Labour Code in August 2017, via the Emergency Ordinance no. 53/2017, the Government toughened the rules on conclusion and declaration of employment contracts and ...

Romania has recently amended its classification of occupations and published it in the Official Gazette dated April 4, 2017.

Employee’s mobility is on many employers’ agenda for a wide number of reasons, including limited qualified resources and a need to access new labour markets, requirements for experience exchange, focus on encouraging cultural diversity, exposure to the global market, and entering new territories.