Ipsos Interactive Services is breaking the law in Romania

<h1>Ipsos Interactive Services is breaking the law in Romania</h1>

<p align=right>by Laura Popescu</p>

<div align=justify>Bucharest, April 2nd 2007 Ipsos Interactive Services, the multinational company, is flagrantly violating the Romanian Labour Law and is benefiting from illegal working. A team of lawyers specialized in work related lawsuits has forwarded an official complaint to the Arges Court of Law, Arges Labour Office and Bucharest Labour Office, against Ipsos Interactive Services (a multinational company dealing with marketing research) and Ebba Serv-Processing, accusing them of severe violations of the Romanian legislation and of the Romanian Labour Law. The lawyers are acting on behalf of a 26 years old young man who was hired by Ipsos Interactive Services and then laid off after only 5 days because he had asked the company to sign the employment contract, and other lawful rights. According to his official complaint, during january-february 2007, the complainant passed three employment interviews at Ipsos Interactive Services, at the Unirii Street, Bucharest headquarters. The interviews were organised by Ana Teodorescu, Andra Alexe (the officials of Ebba Serv-Processing, the company which performs the recruiting activities for Ipsos Interactive Services), and Andrei Postoaca himself, the CEO of Ipsos Interactive Services. On February 26, 2007 these officials have produced a signed and stamped legal document, the Employment Proposal. They let him know that for the first 6 months he will work for Ipsos Interactive Services but he will be legally employed by Ebba Serv-Processing. Therefore on February 26 2007 Andre Alexe, the manager, and Ana Teodorescu, the human resources specialist, have officially forwarded him the Employment Proposal for a 'Product Manager' position. They acted as legal representatives of Ebba Serv-Processing and on behalf of Ipsos Interactive Services. After signing the Employment Proposal the young man has started working for Ipsos Interactive Services at their Bucharest headquarters, on March 1st 2007. Since the very first day he asked the company officials to sign the legal employment contract but he was sistematically postponed. On March 6 2007, after only 5 days, during work time, he was summoned by Ion Postoaca, the Chief Operating Officer of Ipsos Interactive Services. Postoaca told him that he decided to lay him off because the young man had asked too many questions regarding his lawful rights (allowed by the Labour Law) and the officials were discontented with this. Postoaca tried to buy his silence and offered to him a bribe of 2400 RON. But the young man declined his offer and insisted that the Employment Proposal signed on February 26 2007 should be respected and that the employment contract should be signed. As a reaction, Ion Postoaca told him that the company will not sign the employment contract any more and that from that moment he will not be allowed to enter the company headquarters. In this way Ipsos Interactive Services violated both the Employment Proposal and the Romanian Labour Law, Article 16, 1st Paragraph. Confronted with this injustice, the young man, a former Marketing Director, hired a team of lawyers specialized in work related lawsuits and sued Ebba Serv-Processing and Ipsos Interactive Services at the Arges Court of Law. The representatives of both companies are expected to be subpoenaed in the following weeks. He also sent an official request to the Bucharest Labour Office and Arges Labour Office asking them to investigate the case. According to our sources from within Ipsos Interactive Services, there is an overall discontent among the employees because of Ipsos's attitude towards them. Statistically, the time spent in Ipsos for each employee is 1 year at maximum, the turnover rate being the highest in the industry. According to the same sources, illegal work is widespread at Ipsos Interactive Services. The employees are afraid to talk to the authorities because they say they were forced to sign imoral, 300000 EURO confidentiality agreements. Dezvaluiri.ro will conduct further investigations about the ways in which Ipsos Interactive Services systematically breaks the Romanian laws. Laura Popescu </div>

<p align=center>Article source: <a href="http://www.ArticlePros.com/legal/Lawsuits/article-68398.html">ArticlePros.com</a></p>
 
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		<p align=justify>This article was published by Laura Popescu in the Romanian printed and electronic editions of <a href="http://www.dezvaluiri.ro" target="_blank">Dezvaluiri.ro</a> , a Romanian investigations newspaper.</p>
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