Moldova to ratify several articles of the revised European Social Charter more

18.11.2008 06:22
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Moldova is going to ratify more articles of the European Social Charter, if the authorities conform to the provisions of this European document. The discussions between the representatives of the Council of Europe and the Moldovan authorities on the verge of the level of compliance of the Moldovan legislation to the Charter took place on November 18, in Chisinau at a seminar “The Social European Charter and Moldova,” Info-Prim Neo reports. Deputy Economy and Commerce Minister Sergiu Sainciuc has specified that most of the articles of the Charter deal with insuring the right to work, to training, the migration issue, and the safety and health in work. “More than half of this document are related to labor what implies Moldova should insure decent work, inoffensive for its own and foreign citizens,” Sainciuc said. According to the manager of the secretariat of the European Social Charter, Isabelle Chablais-Fabrizzi, Moldova has yet to ratify 11 paragraphs of the Charter referring to labor hygiene and safety, the children's and youth's rights to protection, apprenticeship, the protection of migrant workers, and bettering the labor conditions. “Following the discussions with the Moldovan authorities we believe the Government is ready adopt some 4-5 articles more. This is going to improve the social framework of the citizens and the country,” she said. Moldova accepted, fully or partially, 22 of those 31 articles of the revised European Social Charter. Moldovan ratified the document in 2001.