New regulations regarding combating workplace harassment
The commercial companies are targeted by new regulations regarding combating workplace harassment, regulations that will start to take effect in April 2024.
What is the legislator’s objective in making it mandatory for companies to implement the Methodology?
As we can see from its name, the main objective of the Methodology is to prevent and combat harassment based on gender criteria, as well as moral harassment in the workplace.
More precisely, as a novelty, the Methodology requires private companies to adopt a clear and concrete protocol to follow when one of their employees faces potential harassment based on gender criteria or moral harassment in the context of employment relationships.
In other words, by enforcing the Methodology, the aim is to increase workplace safety by requiring employers to internally develop a special procedure for addressing these types of incidents
The Methodology DOES NOT impose the exact form provided by law as a model, giving employers in the private sector the prerogative to contribute to the rules they are going to implement within their own structure.
It is important and mandatory for the employer to comply with the law and to establish an internal procedure/guide/protocol with clear rules to support the prevention of harassment of any kind in the workplace.
What sanctions does a company risk if it does not implement the guide by April 17, 2024?
”(12) It constitutes an offence and is punishable by a fine:
- b) from RON 50,000 to RON 200,000 for non-compliance by the employer with the provisions of Article 2 paragraph (56).”
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