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Labor Ministry proposes regulating days work


https://www.ipn.md/en/labor-ministry-proposes-regulating-days-work-7967_1005530.html

The Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family put forward a bill that regulates days work. According to the authors, the bill is designed to reduce informal labor, IPN reports.

The main areas where occasional unskilled work can be performed are: agriculture, hunting, fishing, pisciculture, forestry, fruit growing, animal breeding, winegrowing, cleanup and maintenance, etc.

Under the bill, the occasional work lasts for minimum a day, for 8 working hours, but not more than 12 working hours, respectively 5 hours for minor workers under 16 and 7 hours for those aged between 16 and 18, who are able to work. The length of the work done by a days wage earner for a beneficiary must not exceed 90 days in a calendar year. The payment should be made at the end of every workday or at the end of every week, in accordance with the agreement reached by the beneficiary and the worker.

The beneficiary will have to keep a days workers’ register and to transmit an extract from the given register to the local Labor Inspectorate. They are obliged to provide the days wage earner with the work and protection equipment needed to do certain work. The days worker will be socially and medically insured.