The National Trade Union Confederation of Moldova organized information and awareness-raising campaigns on the pedestrian street “Eugen Doga” and in the square of the UNIC Shopping Center on June 7, the Trade Unionist’s Day, which is marked annually on June 7.
In the two locations in Chisinau, with the participation of members of the Youth and Women’s Commissions of the CNSM, the representatives of the CMSM distributed union-informative materials.
The trade unionists provided the population with information and consultations for a better knowledge of the rights in the field of labor and social-economic protection, communicated about the activity of the trade union movement, the results achieved in the recent period, and talked about the benefits of trade union membership.
The campaign also reiterated a number of demands:
1. Not to allow excessive flexibilization and liberalization of labor legislation to the detriment of employees’ rights.
2. Establish the stages for the review of the minimum wage in the period 2025-2027 in order to ensure the transposition of EU Directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union.
3.Improve legislation on pay in the budgetary sector with a view to establishing a single benchmark for the calculation of wages and eliminating existing inequities.
4. Improve the legal framework for real sector wages to ensure fair pay and to exclude loopholes that favor the informal economy.
5. Establish effective sanctions in the Contravention Code of the Republic of Moldova* No. 218/2008 for violation of trade union legislation and trade union rights.
6. Ensure the activity of the National Commission for Collective Bargaining and Consultations and strengthen the social partnership in the labor sphere at all levels.
7. Develop an action plan to cover about 80% of employees with collective bargaining, as required by the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union.
8. Introduce progressive personal income taxation and indexation of income tax exemptions.
9. Deduction from income tax of union membership fees paid by taxpayers.
10. Granting old-age allowance to all persons on reaching retirement age.
11. Inclusion of the period of childcare up to the age of 3 and the period of residency in compulsory post-secondary education in the period of compulsory post-secondary education in the period of contribution required for the establishment of early retirement for long career;
12. Exclusion of the survivor’s income limit (1.5 minimum subsistence minimum for pensioners) when granting benefits in case of death of a spouse benefits in case of death of a spouse under the Law on the granting of benefits in case of death of a spouse No. 156/2019.
13. Develop a separate mechanism for calculating and determining pensions for agricultural employees.
14. Develop and adopt measures to stimulate the creation of decent jobs in agriculture.
15. Implement the electronic register of employees in the Republic of Moldova.
16. Bring the legal framework on state control into line with the provisions of the relevant International Labor Organization Conventions.
17. Increasing transfers from the state budget to the compulsory health insurance funds for the insurance of categories of unemployed persons.
18. Stop raising the retirement age for women.
Trade Unionists’ Day is marked annually, on 7 June 2007 after the two national-interbranch trade union centers (Confederation of Trade Unions of the Republic of Moldova and Confederation of Free Trade Unions “Solidarity”) adopted the historic decision to reunite the trade union movement in the country by merging and creating a single center – the National Trade Union Confederation of Moldova.
Trade Unionists’ Day brings to the forefront the importance of mobilizing the solidarity efforts of workers at all levels in order to achieve social equity and dignity of work in the Republic of Moldova.
