Local employers’ organizations were created or the existing organizations were consolidated in five districts and in the municipality of Balti within the three-year project “Local social dialogue for a better administration of the labor market in Moldova” that is implemented by the National Employers Confederation of Moldova (CNPM). Next year the project will be extended to cover another three districts, IPN reports.
In a roundtable meeting centering on the project results, CNPM chairman Leonid Cerescu said the initiative was launched in 2011 with the aim of building up the social dialogue at local level by creating and strengthening the capacities of local commissions for collective negotiations and consultations in Cahul and Edinet districts and in the municipality of Balti. When the project produced a positive impact, the commissions continued their activity. But, it was established that the work of these commissions will not be really viable if one of the partners is weaker and less organized, this party being the employers.
After 2012, the project’s objective was to create local employers organizations in Cahul, Balti and Edinet and in another three districts that were selected afterward – Cimislia, Causeni, and Soroca. Leonid Cerescu said that it was not at all easy to register the local organizations owing to the behavior of the members and of the Ministry of Justice. Hancesti district was included in the project in 2013. According to the CNPM chairman, the employers must unite as one employer cannot represent a sector, while the authorities want to find out the position of all the employers.
Project coordinator Iulia Drumea has told IPN that Straseni, Orhei and Sangerei are likely to be included in the project in 2014. The project was implemented with the support of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the financial support of the Government of Norway.
In the roundtable meeting, CNPM deputy chairman Petru Chiriac Moldova said the consolidation of the local employers’ organizations is a beneficial move as correct decisions are taken when all the partners of the social dialogue become involved.
ILO national coordinator Oxana Lipcanu said the International Labor Organization is making effort to bring the employers, trade unions and the authorities together at talks and such a policy to improve the social dialogue is applied at world level.
Sergiu Moraru, of the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, said the lack of local employers’ organizations was one of the most serious obstacles to maintaining the social dialogue at local level.
Deputy head of the State Labor Inspectorate Igor Ciloci said the consolidation of the employers’ organizations at local level will help ensure the observance of the labor legislation and social peace as, when there is no social dialogue, the rules are violated, the salaries are paid with delay, while the employers and salary earners continue to work illegally.
A number of workshops were held within the project, where the employers learned how to organize themselves. There were worked out guidebooks on the legislation, taxation system, work discipline, etc. The project also supported the creation of websites for the CNPM and sector employers.
