The Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family suggests modifying the Law on Temporary Incapacity for Work and other Social Benefits. Following discussions with a group of pregnant women and mothers, who staged protests, it proposed restoring some of the provisions that existed before amendments were adopted last December, which are to take effect on April 1, 2014, IPN reports.
Under the Ministry’s bill, the maternity benefit and child benefit will be calculated based on the guaranteed minimum salary or, at request, on the incomes gained during 12 months preceding the maternity leave in which the persons were in full employment and earned the guaranteed income, on condition that this will lead to the rise in the size of the given benefits.
Another change concerns the socially insured persons who, during the last 12 calendar months preceding the month when the insured risk occurred, had been on leave to look after the child up to the age of three. In the case of these persons, the maternity benefit and the benefit for looking after the next children are set according to the calculation base used to determine the given benefits for the previous child.
Also, the persons who, during the leave to look after the child, returned to work part-time will receive salary for the time worked and a child benefit of 30% of the calculation base until the child turns three.
