As a result of the substance amendments brought to the Labor Code (Law no. 53/2003) according to Law no. 40/2011, followed in a short period of time, by the enactment of Law no. 62/2011 of social dialogue, certain contradictions were generated between the Labor Code (as republished on 18 May 2011) and Law no. 62/2011, generating a series of controversies in the Romanian judicial doctrine. Some of these controversies are reexamined by the author of this study who, after debating them, reaches certain interesting conclusions.