Regulation of Labor in the European Union in the Context of Community Enlargement

• Author: Victoria Onofrei
• Position: University of European Studies of Moldova, Republic of Moldova
• Pages: 545-552

ISSN: 2067 – 9211 Miscellaneous

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Regulation of Labor in the European Union

in the Context of Community Enlargement

Victoria Onofrei1

Abstract: In general, in international and intergenerational treaties, over the millennia, work has been

tacitly a right. Of course, for some time we can exclude from this “right” those who were actually forced

to perform free physical labor, referring here to the period in which slavery flourished visibly and officially.

Of course it would be an aberration to completely rule out this form of exploitation today, it has been

cleverly camouflaged by those who still practice it to obtain as many benefits as possible in their own

interest, deftly bypassing not only the legislative rules but the moral order itself of the existence of peers.

From our point of view, this form of labor exploitation is attracted by the lower standards of living in

developing countries, thus providing extremely cheap or free labor, when the one in greatest need is induced

into error and subsequently exploited. Over the years, following the awareness and capitalization of the

human personality, there is a continuous struggle with this unfortunate phenomenon. It is constantly wanted

to annihilate the exploitation of the human being and improve its working conditions. The first steps in this

regard were taken by the International Labor Organization, the leading player in the labor market and social

protection.

Keywords: International Labor Organization; international treaties; labor exploitation

With the economic development, the development of the sales markets as well as the increase of the

labor demand, the need of an intervention of new regulations was felt, or, we could say of legislative

completions. Thus, in support of the idea of protection and the provision of working conditions, the

European Union came into force since t he 90s, which felt the need to balance the production market

with the labor market.

Thus, taking into account the obligation of Member States to adapt or fully implement European Union

directives, labor law at national and Community level - in their correlation - can be considered as

instruments of European economic integration. The relations between national labor law and European

Union labor law become complex, mutually influential relations2. In this regard, the European Union

has adopted a series of directives regulating certain aspects of the market and labor law3, with the main

purpose of not simply legislating to fill the legal portfolio of the European Union, but creating the

principles of labor and social protection and for stabilizing, solving and annihilating the problems that

Member States were facing at national and international level in this field.

1 University of European Studies of Moldova, Republic of Moldova, Address: Strada Ghenadie Iablocikin 2/1 Str., Chisinau

2069, Republic of Moldova, Corresponding author: victoriaonofrei@univ-danubius. ro.

2 Popescu, Andrei (2008). Buletin de informare legislativa/Bulletin of legislative information, no. 2, Bucharest.

3 https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=157&langId=en.