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The Government approved in Thursday's sitting the emergency ordinance regarding measures to protect the revenues of certain employee categories, IT, R & D and innovation professionals, seasonal workers, employees with severe disabilities but also part-time employees, Nelu Barbu, spokesperson of the Executive announced.
He specified that "granting these facilities is conditioned (...) by the augmentation of the gross salary by at least 20 percent compared to the 2017 level, given the transfer of the tax burden of social contributions from employer to employee."
The Executive's spokesperson mentioned that another provision of the GEO "ensures at least the same net income for both public and private employees working part-time."
"More specifically, as of January 2018, the persons with a part-time individual labour contract will have their social contributions and health social contribution retained in proportion to their gross monthly income, and the difference to the level of contributions corresponding to the minimum income will be incurred on behalf of the employee by the employing budget institution or by the private employer - because you know very well there have been those discussions regarding the fact that certain people might not have had the possibility to pay those contributions prescribed for the gross minimum income for people who work part-time. Certainly, this will not be an issue ant more through this amendment," Barbu affirmed.
He further said that the OUG introduces yet another measure "for protecting the revenues of people on sick leave and those who collect unemployment benefits, so that their income is not affected." "For these people, the social contributions will be calculated against their gross income, that is the unemployment benefits, let's say, and not against the average income, as the previous legislation established," Nelu Barbu specified.
