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With concern growing over the impact of the 2011 legislative reforms on industrial relations in Romania, the ILO commissioned a study to consider the impact of these reforms on working conditions and employment relations. The study concluded that on the whole the social impact of the reforms appears to have been detrimental to social partnership, collective bargaining and the quality of employment:–The reforms have made it considerably more difficult for trade unions and employers’ organizations to operate effectively. Since 2011 when the Law on Social Dialogue entered into force, trade union membership has declined and there is a considerable reduction in the number of employers’ organisations which are actually able according to the new statutory criteria to obtain the status of “representative”.