The women trade unionists from the agroindustrial sector repeatedly called on the central authorities to amend the social insurance budget for this year and to set the childbirth lump sum payment at minimum 5,000 lei. Members of the women’s organization of “Agroindsind” Federation launched a nationwide campaign to protect and promote the rights of women and children. As part of this campaign, they will stage a number of protests, IPN reports.

Daria Bostan, head of the women’s organization of “Agroindsind”, told a news conference that the women continue to be discriminated. The trade unions demand that the monthly childcare allowance should represent 40% of the calculated revenues. The authorities are asked to adopt a national child and mother protection program and to extend the list of compensated drugs for children under seven.

The head of the Ungheni local union of women trade unionists Rodica Lungu said that most of the women from villages choose to work abroad so as to get rid of poverty. As a result, the families are dismembered and the birth rate goes down. In villages, there are serious problems as regards health services, education, etc.

Parents receive three types of allowances when a child is born: allowance for the prenatal and postnatal leave that is paid once for the whole period, lump sum childbirth payment, and monthly childcare allowance paid up to the child’s age of three to socially insured person and to the age of one year and a half to socially uninsured persons.

The lump sum childbirth payment this year is by 500 lei higher. The insured women receive 3,400 lei, while the uninsured ones – 3,100 lei.