The impact of legislative reforms on industrial relations in Romania

It considers the negative impact of the reforms on workers’ rights. In this regard, it makes an important contribution to the debate concerning Romanian labour market reforms and how best to ensure that they lead to decent job creating growth. Its insights are also highly relevant to wider questions about compliance with fundamental international labour standards and how to regulate the relationship between workers’ and employers’ organizations so as to strike a balance between workers’ rights and enterprises’ needs for sustainability and competiveness.