The government issues emergency order to amend newly passed salary law.
The Romanian Government has again modified the salary law. The reason for this decision was that, as a result of shifting the obligation to pay social security contributions from employers to employees, there would have been categories of workers getting less money for medical leaves, including maternity leaves, as compared to last year.
The categories targeted by the latest changes are employees on medical leave for temporary work disability, pregnant women and women who have just given birth, workers on parental leave to care for their sick children as well as women on pregnancy-related sick leave.
Prime Minister Viorica Dancila has stated that all these categories will get as much money as they did last year:
"People on medical leave for temporary work disability or on parental leave will benefit from the same rights and the same incomes as those valid until January 1st, 2018."
The ordinance stipulates that women with children will get the same amounts for medical leave until October 1st, and, as regards the other categories of employees, the value of medical leave benefits will remain as they were in 2017, until July 1st, 2018. The transfer of the obligation to pay social security contributions from employers to employee has triggered lots of controversies and even protests among several categories of employees, who saw their salaries actually slashed.
The main opposition party in Romania, the National Liberal Party, has filed a simple no-confidence motion against the Labour Minister Lia Olguta Vasilescu, criticising the new provisions, which, in their opinion, have done even more harm to the salary system and the tax system in general. The no-confidence motion, however, has been rejected. According to the Labour Minister, the aim of the new salary law was to create a balanced public salary system, as there were many employees being paid differently for doing the same jobs.
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