|
RRI newsletter subcription
(e-mail address):
|
 |
Archives:
|
|
| Media Headlines 09/12/2010 |
| (2010-12-09) |
| Last updated: 2010-12-10 13:30 EET |
After three weeks of uncertainty, talks and clashes, culminating on Monday with the announcement of an emergency ordinance limiting parental leave to one year, the governing coalition in Bucharest on Wednesday came up with yet another version, writes the daily Evenimentul Zilei.
Under the heading “Mothers keep their leave while the government keeps its money”, the publication writes that the latest version of the bill is a result of a compromise between the two ruling political parties, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania. Starting next year, one parent can choose between taking a one-year parental leave and a child rearing benefit of up to 3,400 lei per month as and taking 2 years of parental leave with a benefit of up to 1,200 lei per month. In addition, those who will return to work before the 2-year period is up will receive a 500 lei bonus every month.
The daily paper Romania Libera also writes “two days after it had announced that parental leave would be cut to half, PM Boc gave in to the grievances of their governing partners.” The daily paper Jurnalul National quotes the Labor Minister Ioan Botis as saying: “We have taken under advisement the fact that we don’t yet have the necessary infrastructure to accommodate all these newborns.
Accordingly, we have devised an integrated set of laws meant to reduce challenges linked to the building of nurseries in 2011”. The implementation of these provisions will result in 100-million lei worth of savings to the budget, Botis added, which will reduce the overall budget costs to 1.9 billion lei next year. “The luxury of giving birth”, writes the daily paper Gandul, quoting one mother as saying “I wanted to have another baby. It was the right timing. If they change the law, all I’m left with is wishful thinking”.
“In Bucharest and Cluj mothers took to the streets and threatened to sue the Government” writes the daily paper Gandul, also mentioning the 33 thousand daddies who sympathized with the protest. Mothers say they don’t have the means to hire a nursemaid, while “all qualified nursery personnel has been made redundant except caretakers.”
Mothers further complained that after years of paying all their taxes regularly, and after their salaries had been cut, now their parental leave was about to be amended as well. Mothers insisted that the new law should come into effect within nine months of its adoption, in such a way that parents should decide whether to have a child or not in full awareness.
|
|
| |
WMA |
|
64kbps : |
1
2
3
|
|
|
128kbps : |
1
2
3
|
| |
MP3 |
|
|
64kbps : |
1
2
3
|
|
|
128kbps : |
1
2
3
|
| |
AAC+ |
|
|
48kbps : |
1
2
3
|
|
|
64kbps : |
1
2
3
|
 Historical mascot of
RRI |
| |
© 1999 - 2011 Copyright Radio Romania International |
|
2025-04-03
Print
Listen again