In Moldova, from 9 December this year, new, stricter rules will come into force for staff who work with children or interact with them on a regular basis (including online). These rules apply to both state and private institutions.
Members of the armed forces in the Republic of Moldova will receive pay rises of approximately 20.6 per cent from 1 January 2027, as part of the reform of the public sector pay system approved by the Government.
The Ministry of Defence held public consultations on the controversial draft law on special legal regimes in the event of war and states of emergency. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Agency for Military Science and Remembrance. Representatives of veterans’ organisations, the academic community and delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross took part in the discussion. Following the discussion, the parties agreed to draw up practical recommendations to help make the wording of the bill clearer and more applicable in practice.
The Moldovan authorities intend to change their approach to employment policy. Rather than focusing primarily on those officially registered as unemployed, the state will seek to draw the economically inactive population more actively into the labour market.
Overcrowding in schools in Chișinău remains a problem requiring urgent action, and the Ministry of Education maintains that it has proposed several solutions to the municipality to increase the number of places available in educational institutions.
Salaries for staff in the education system will rise from 1 January 2027, when the new pay law comes into force. Teachers will receive guaranteed pay rises of between 11 per cent and nearly 15 per cent, depending on their teaching grade, and in some cases the increases could reach 30 per cent.
The Ministry of the Environment has submitted draft amendments to the Waste Act for public consultation. In particular, the proposed changes include a ban on the use of plastic funeral wreaths until the end of 2026.
The German company BauTex, based in Strășeni, plans to increase its production volume by 40 per cent this year and by a further 20 per cent next year. Almost the entire output of the company is exported to European Union countries. The materials manufactured here are used in construction, the shipbuilding and aerospace industries, including in the production of Airbus aircraft.
Moldova and the Czech Republic signed an addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding in Prague as part of the ‘Support for the Implementation of the RESTART Reform’ project. The document was signed by Natalya Plugaru, Minister of Labour and Social Protection, and her Czech counterpart, Ales Žučelka.
Moldovan travel agencies and tour operators earned over 4.7 billion lei in the first nine months of 2026. This is 12 per cent more than in the same period last year. At the same time, the number of clients of travel companies also rose: it reached 512,000, which is 7 per cent higher than the figure for January–September 2025.
