About 60,000 employees from the construction and road sectors, who work legally, for the period out of work will receive an indemnity of 75% of the gross basic salary for the last three months without losing salary earners’ rights. Such a legislative initiative was put forward by the Ministry of Regional Development and Construction. It suggested creating the Social House of Builders that would protect the salary earners when their work is suspended following unfavorable weather conditions, natural disasters or economic-financial crises, IPN reports.
The legislative initiative provides for the creation of a special indemnity fund that wok include companies’ mandatory contribution of 1% of their production. The compulsory contribution of salary earners will be 1% of the gross monthly salary, while the mandatory contribution of all investors and owners will be 0.5% of the value of the construction-assembly works.
The Social House of Builders will also provide services such as issuing of guarantee letters for participating in tender contests, will found a handicrafts schools by the model of the EU schools, will develop a private pension program in parallel with the state one, etc. The law applies only to the members of the Social House of Builders who pay contributions into the indemnity fund.
The penalty for not paying the contribution into the indemnity fund is 0.05% of the overdue sum for every day of delay.
Contacted by IPN, chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of the Construction and Building Materials Industry Victor Talmaci said the creation of the Social House of Buildings will solve the multitude of problems faced by the salary earners from the sector and will enable to reduce the exodus of skilled labor force abroad.
