The legislative body ratified the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, which is known as the Istanbul Convention, IPN reports.
By the Istanbul Convention, the parties ensure the prevention and combating of violence against women and domestic violence, protection of the victims, investigation of perpetrators and adoption of integrated policies. Resources will be allocated for ensuring the functionality of crisis centers for the victims of violence, for 24/24 emergency hotlines, for shelters for victims of violence, for psychological and legal counseling and other measures. Each public authority will estimate and earmark the necessary resources so as to ensure the implementation of the Convention.
In the same meeting on October 14, the MP gave a first reading to a bill that annuls the offshore secret and lays the basis for ensuring maximum transparency at commercial organizations that operate on Moldova’s territory. Under the bill to amend the law on the state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, the Public Services Agency will be obliged to ensure the publication of information about effective beneficiaries from the State Register on the existing platforms that provide data about companies.
The bill concerning measures that will be taken to support employees during the COVID-19 pandemic contains a series of amendments to the Labor Code. If the education process is held online and the responsible authorities order special measures to ensure the security, protection of the life and health of the population, with the consent of the employer days away from work will be given to one of the parents or the guardian for supervising children younger than 12 and children with disabilities who attend school. In the period, the employee will get an allowance equal to at least 50% of the basic salary. To stimulate vaccination against COVID-19, the employees will get days away from work, by keeping the average salary, for implementing special measures to fight the pandemic.
Another adopted proposal provides that the administrative-ancillary personnel of health facilities will benefit from a 57% increase in salaries as from November 1, 2021.
The MPs also passed a bill that limits access to heated tobacco products and electronic cigarettes. The document bans the display, in visible places, of tobacco products, devices and accessories for using, reloading and heating tobacco products and related products. The initiative aims to prevent the minors’ access to tobacco and related products, to protect the population’s health from the consequences of smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke.
