The new application for the electronic registration of employees (Revisal) is just a control tool for labor inspectors and will not replace employment record books – which stopped being used at the beginning of the year – as long as the employee data are not secured and “guaranteed” by an electronic signature, believes general inspector Dantes Nicolae Bratu, 48, one of the first employees of the Labor Inspection Department set up eleven years ago.
“This database (Revisal i.e.) is a labor inspector’s tool, it is neither a payroll, nor an employment record book. For the register to be turned into an electronic employment record system, it should be much more complex and I would start with the electronic signature and a higher level of security for the data,” Bratu told ZF in an interview.
Revisal is a component of the ReGES (General Employee Register), which was updated this year so that employers could send information about every employee in a new format to the territorial labor inspection department by mid November. Yet the new version of the application was met with criticism from human resources managers who said it did not bring too many improvements compared with the old version because it freezes and incorrect entries cannot be erased.
“The general employee register had been around before January 1, 2007, though in paper format. Its role was to serve as a tool for labor inspectors to fight illegal work,” Bratu said. “As not every company kept the employment record books at their place of operations, they had to show this register to the labor inspectors to prove the people in that particular workplace were legally employed.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)