LLMD

Labour Law (MD)

Labour Law of the Republic of Moldova


In force since 2019-03-15, valid until before 2020-05-26

Art.

111

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In force since 2020-05-26

Art.

111

Non-working holidays

(1) In the Republic of Moldova, non-working holidays are:


a) January 1 - New Year;


b) January 7 and 8 - The birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas in the old style);


c) March 8 - International Women's Day;


d) the first and second day of Easter according to the church calendar;


e) Monday one week after Easter (Easter of the Blessed);


f) May 1 - International Day of Solidarity of Working People;


g) May 9 - Victory Day and the commemoration of the fallen heroes for the independence of the Fatherland;


g.1) May 9 - Europe Day;


h) August 27 - Independence Day;


i) August 31 - the celebration "Our Language";


i.1) December 25 - Birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas in a new style);


j) the day of the Feast of the church from the respective locality, declared in the manner established by the local council of the municipality, city, commune, village.


(1.1) To the employees remunerated in agreement or per unit of time (hour or day), for the non-working holidays listed in par. (1), if the non-working holidays do not coincide with the weekly rest days, they are paid the average salary.


If the non-working holidays coincide with the weekly rest days, the average salary for these days is not paid.


(2) On non-working holidays, works are allowed in the units whose stopping is not possible in connection with the technical and production conditions (continuous flow units), the works determined by the need to serve the population, as well as the urgent repair and loading works. -download.


(3) It is not allowed to attract pregnant women up to 18 years of age to work on non-working holidays.


(4) The persons with severe and accentuated disabilities, one of the parents (guardian, curator) who have children up to 4 years old or children with disabilities, the persons who combine the parental leave provided in art. 126 and 127 par. (2) with the work activity and the employees who take care of a sick family member, based on the medical certificate, can perform the work on non-working holidays only with their written consent. At the same time, the employer is obliged to inform in writing the mentioned employees about their right to refuse work on non-working holidays.


(5) In order to make the best use of rest days and non-working holidays by employees, the head of the unit, after consulting the employees' representatives, is entitled to transfer the rest (working) days to other days. For public authorities and institutions, the right to transfer the rest (working) days to other days, including by changing the daily working time, belongs to the Government. Employees who on the declared day of rest were not yet in employment with the unit in question, employees whose individual employment contracts were suspended on that date, as well as employees who on that day were on sick leave, in maternity leave, partly paid childcare leave up to the age of 3, additional unpaid childcare leave from 3 to 4 years old, annual leave, unpaid leave and study leave the obligation to appear at work on the declared working day.


(6) (Repealed)