The intention to make the employers more responsible by obliging them to pay allowances for three days of sick leave to the employees is hogwash and represents a screen hiding the robberies in companies, considers the National Employers Confederation of Moldova. It says that the way chosen by the authorities is in fact the way of ‘minimum resistance’, but it often leads to an impasse, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting a communiqué from the employers. In a news conference, Minister of Labor Valentina Buliga said the employers were obliged to pay for two more days of sick leave in order to make them more responsible as some of them earlier resolved technical unemployment problems through the agency of the state social insurance budget. The employers consider that this statement is strange. “We cannot imagine an employer going to the medical institution and taking a pile of sick leave sheets for distributing them to employees in order to avoid paying technical unemployment benefits or encouraging their dismissal on other grounds than health ones,” says the Confederation of Employers. The communiqué also says that any amendment concerning the temporary incapacity for work will inevitably affect the employees as only they go to the doctor to ask for sick leave, not the employer. “When the political situation is unstable, the authorities will not take steps to put themselves in a disadvantageous situation. Thus, Valentina Buliga’s statement that there is no room for politics in the social system as we must implement social policies focusing on the people is not true. However, it is true that the social system is full of policies, but not many of them are social. When they speak about increasing responsibility, they in fact reveal that some of the state institutions failed to fulfill their duty,” reads the communiqué. The related amendments to the law were adopted in final reading on January 15.