ACI Partners: Legal Flash No. 21

ACI Partners: Legal Flash No. 21

• 30.12.2015

This Legal Flash brings you the latest news on the long-awaited amendments of the Labour code. The Legal Flash also informs you of the new Regulation adopted by the Principal Fiscal Inspectorate on new mode of settlement of tax liabilities.

The major recent amendments and supplements to the Labour code are as follows:

- The term of confidentiality clause has been extended to up to 2 years from the termination of the employment agreement.
- Duration of the probation period was increased. Probation period for unskilled employees has been extended from 15 to 30 calendar days. Probation period for company manager, his deputies and chief accountant shall be 6 months.
- The list of grounds for suspension of the employment agreement at the initiative of employee was extended. Thus, employment agreement may be suspended at the initiative of employee in case of non-payment or partial payment, for at least two consecutive months, of employee’s salary or of other mandatory payments. At the same time, the employee will be bound to resume the work within three working days after payment of salary or other obligatory payments, or being notified on transfer of such payments on his/her bank card.
- Parties will be allowed to terminate the individual employment agreement by mutual written consent. Prior to this amendments such possibility of termination of the individual employment agreement was not provided for by the law.
- Conditions based on which employee may be dismissed for unauthorized absence from work have been clarified. Thus, according to the amendments, lunch break will not be taken into account for determining the period of unauthorised absence.

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