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The government has regulated the possibility of reduction of work time and grant of allowances for day laborers
The government has regulated on Friday through emergency ordnance, the possibility to reduce worktime and grant allowances for day laborers and seasoned professionals such as remote work, according to a press release of the ministry of work.
One of the measures adopted by the government, and which could be applied anytime a state of emergency/alert/siege, is necessary this is the support offered by the state under the format of a temporary financial scheme for employees who will have a reduced worktime.
Thus, the employer will be able to reduce, during this period the worktime of the employees by at most 50% of the duration included in the individual worktime, with a corresponding use of the working time and the reduction of the salary.
During this period, the employees benefit from an allowance of 75% from the difference between the gross salary included in the individual workcontract and the gross salary corresponding to the worktime effectively done as a result of the reduction of worktime, but not more than 75% of the average gross income included in the law for the social insurance budget.
These sums are paid by the employer and are later reimbursed by the National agency for employment from the unemployment insurance budget. The press release mentions the fact that the executive will continue to support the people who have income as independent workers and who benefitted from the technical unemployment allowance during the period of state of emergency/alert on the basis of OUG 30/2020. Thus, in the context of the temporary reduction of activity, during the period of emergency state these people will benefit from the monthly allowance of 41.5% of the average gross salary. The payment will be made from the state budget, through the National agency for payments and social inspectins on the basis of demand and statement.
Other categories who will be supported to help the workforce market for a period of three months, are daylaboreres and season workers. For day laborers who develop their activity in one of the domains affected by interruption or restriction of the activity as a result of the effects of coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 a sum representing 35% of the payment due for a work day for a period of three months is offered from the state budget, at the choice of the work beneficiary, but not later than 31st December 2020. The work beneficiaries will pay the money to the daylaboreres from their own budget at the moment of daily work retribution and later they will collect the paid sums through the National Agency for Payment and Social Inspections and the agencies for payment and county social inspections.
The government has also decided to offer to day laborers an allowance of 41.5% of the salary, but not more than 41.5% of the gross average salary at the level of economy, for the worked period. This facility will be offered until 31st December 2020, for three months at most, at the choice of the employer, for the employees who have individual work contract for a limited period of up to three months.
The employer will pay the whole sum due for the work done on the basis of the individual work contract during the period under discussion, and later he will be reimbursed through the National Agency for employment the sum representing the percentage of 41.5%. The collection from the budget of unemployment insurance will be made within ten days at most since the request is lodged.
Another measure adopted by the government to support the workmarket during this period has as purpose the desire to make the employers to use remote work, in the context where rules for physical distancing at the workplace as well must be kept.
In this way, the government included the grant, once, of a sum of 2,500 lei for the employees who worked remote during the period of emergency or alert for a period of 15 days at least, for the acquisition of goods and technological services necessary to develop remote work. This measure refers to employers who are included as small and medium enterprises and who proved to have used remote work during the emergency period. The money is given through the national agency for employment from the unemployment insurance budget, subsidies from the state budget, in the limit of the allocated budget, until 31st December 2020.
The measures adopted do not apply to public institutions, employers who at the moment of request were in bankruptcy, or who had suspended activities, employers who are registered in non-cooperating units for fiscal purposes. Approximately 700,000 people who will benefit from the new measures adopted by the government, the budgetary impact being estimated at 2.4 billion lei.