The State Labor Inspectorate will be empowered to inform the State Tax Service of cases of undeclared work and unofficial payment of salaries identified at employers. The MPs gave a first reading to a bill that is designed to help the institution strengthen its capacities to fight undeclared work, IPN reports.

The Inspectorate will be able to ascertain and examine contraventions related to undeclared work. Labor inspectors will be banned from acting as founders or instructors within private external protection and prevention services and will be obliged to declare conflicts of interest if persons close to them, who are specified in the law on the declaring of property and personal interests, are founders of such services.

The legislation will be supplemented with one more reason based on which unplanned inspections can be carried out. More exactly, such inspections could be conducted when there is concrete evidence of undeclared work and unofficial payment of salaries.

“If we aim to encourage fair competition and a healthy business climaxed, inspections should be carried out and we need to increase the capacities and skills of these institutions and to modernize them,” argued the head of the Parliament’s commission on social protection, health and family Dan Perciun.

The bill will be adopted after it is given a second reading.