COVID-19: We want an economic recovery program of the country

The National Trade Union Confederation of Moldova together with the National Confederation of Employers of the Republic of Moldova submitted today, on April 16, a request to the Government of the Republic of Moldova. This address provides for the adoption of active measures in order to ensure the necessary level of socio-economic protection of the general population, employees and the business environment.

In the approach submitted to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Ion Chicu, the social partners – trade unions and employers, indicate: financial assistance provided to the Republic of Moldova by the European Union in order to cover immediate needs and overcome the long-term consequences of the epidemiological crisis in the country, it needs to be applied as a matter of priority in the medical field, in order to support the population, of the employees left without a job, but also of the economic agents that have stopped their activity.

Thus, trade unions and employers believe that, in order to maintain the link between employer and employees and, at a post-crisis stage, reducing the time for economic recovery, the state should assume the payment of technical unemployment benefits in cases where economic agents are making their employees technically unemployed.