Forty-four workers from Sri Lanka, employed in a clothing factory in the Botosani, northern Romania have been fired, after seven of them had tested positive for COVID-19.
The Romanian Labour Inspectorate has been notified of the incident and probes have commenced.
The employer has told the labour inspectors that the Sri Lankan citizens had not reported to work over the fear of infecting with the novel coronavirus. He also claimed that the 44 Sri Lankans were fired after they had refused to come to work.
Romanian labour inspectors have pointed out that the Sri Lankan employees have the same rights as their Romanian colleagues and probes are currently underway to see whether the layoffs were abusive.
At the beginning of this year in January, a conflict started in a small community in Harghita after several Sri Lankan workers had been hired by a local bakery.
-With inputs from Romania Journal
