unpaid vacation

Romania’s Ombudsman, Ioan Muraru, on Tuesday said that imposing ten-day unpaid vacation for all state employees will be mandatory from the legal viewpoint only if it is set by a law adopted by the Parliament or by Government Ordinance, in accordance with the Constitution.

Romanian public sector employees will take unpaid vacations between September and November, will shorten working hours to six from eight per day or simply work ten days less to cut budget spending by 0.3% of GDP, finance minister Gheorghe Pogea said Tuesday.