The National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova requests the economic entities to take all the measures provided in the legislation for protecting employees during hot days, IPN reports.

According to a communiqué of the Confederation, when temperatures exceed 30 degrees Celsius, the intensity and rate of physical activities should be reduced, the workplaces should be aired, while the dynamic and static efforts and the periods of work and the periods of rest must be alternated.

In the period, the employees must be supplied with 2-4 liters of saline carbonated or mineral water per person, individual protection equipment and showers. The employers who cannot provide these conditions can decide to reduce the work program during dog days in concert with representatives of the salary earners.

The Confederation calls on the competent bodies to carry out inspections and take other measures in order to identify and penalize the employers who do not obey the law. The employees can use the free hotline 800 800 20 to report related violations or can inform the State Labor Inspectorate.

Under the legislation, the employers who do not take measures to protect the salary earners when the weather is hot face fines of 1,600 to 10,000 lei.