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marginalization risk, and ensuring that individuals so employed retain their jobs
when such incentives are no longer offered;
(c)
Ensuring effective compliance by public and private companies and
institutions with the 4 per cent quota for the employment of persons with disabilities,
including by providing for dissuasive sanctions for employers in case of noncompliance;
(d)
Adopting a revised action plan addressing the insufficiencies of the
Strategy for the Inclusion of Romanian citizens from the Roma community in order to
ensure that the Roma enjoy equality of opportunity and treatment in employment and
are provided with sustainable income-generating opportunities, including by
enhancing their training skills.
Asylum seekers
12.
The Committee notes with concern that asylum seekers are not allowed to work
during the first year of their stay in the State party and therefore depend on the subsistence
allowance. The Committee is also concerned that the amount of allowance provided to
asylum seekers is not sufficient to cover their basic needs (arts. 6 and 11).
The Committee recommends that the State party take the appropriate steps to amend
its legislation allowing asylum seekers to obtain a work permit within one year after
their arrival in the State party. The State party should also enforce the Asylum Law
and ensure that the allowance granted to asylum seekers is sufficient to cover their
basic needs.
Minimum wage
13.
The Committee is concerned that, despite recent increases, the minimum wage set in
the State party is not sufficient to provide recipients and their families with a decent living
(arts. 7 and 9).
The Committee recommends that the State party establish an effective system of
indexation and regular adjustment of the minimum wage to the cost of living,
providing recipients and their families with a decent standard of living.
Trade union rights
14.
The Committee is concerned at the reported practice of certain employers who make
employment conditional upon the worker agreeing not to create or join a trade union
(art. 8).
The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary measures to
guarantee full protection against acts of anti-union discrimination, including by
imposing sufficiently dissuasive sanctions on employers who violate workers’ rights to
create or join trade unions.
Social security
15.
While taking note that some of the cuts that were introduced to social security
benefits owing to austerity measures have been reversed, the Committee remains concerned
that the amounts of the benefits, such as child-raising allowance, unemployment benefits,
the minimum pension and other social assistance benefits, are not sufficient to ensure an
adequate standard of living for the recipients and their families (art. 9).
The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary measures to
ensure that the amounts of benefits, such as child-raising allowance, unemployment
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