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News on the labor market in Romania. Individuals can legally pay a household employee. Work involves household activities.

Those who provide such services will receive vouchers based on which they will be remunerated and will benefit from the rights that other employees also have, namely the payment of social contributions. The state will take 3 lei from 15.

Employed in the household with the same rights as other employees. A new JOB in Romania. Young people can also work, from the age of 16

The electronic platform for beneficiaries and providers of domestic activities, which introduces a new concept on the labor market, is functional and accessible HEREannounced the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity.

The concept involves the purchase of vouchers with which people who carry out occasional activities in the household can be remunerated.

Vouchers carry social security and health benefits.

Thus, the workers benefit from settled medical services, their contributions being capitalized in the pension as well.

“Marketplace” for supply and demand

According to representatives of the Ministry of Labour, another functionality of the platform is that it facilitates the interaction between the beneficiary and the domestic provider.

Beneficiaries can post in the “Marketplace” section the services they are personally looking for, and the providers the services they can offer, thus ensuring mediation between demand and supply in terms of carrying out household activities.

What is the value of a ticket and how do you benefit from social security

Accessible platform HEREcan be used by workers, household beneficiaries, but also by employers and represents a form of support for underemployed people who are not insured in the state social insurance system.

The advantage of enrolling in the platform and providing services based on value vouchers is that domestic workers benefit from pension and health insurance provided they exchange at least 85 household activity vouchers.

This basically means 1,275 lei per month.

The value of a ticket is 15 lei, of which 3 lei represent the contributions necessary for the provider to benefit from pension and health insurance, without the need for an employment contract between the parties.

Convention instead of contract

The agreement concluded between the provider and the household beneficiary in order to provide the activities, although the written form is not mandatory, will establish:

• activities and number of hours or workload;
• the fact that the domestic service provider is paid with vouchers for domestic activities;
• the daily workload, which cannot exceed 12 hours for an adult and 6 hours for providers between the ages of 16-18.

Who can do housework?

Any person who has turned 16 and who wants to have or supplement their income by providing, occasionally, unskilled domestic activities, can register as a domestic worker, whether they are unemployed, retired, pupil, student or employee.

According to the Ministry of Labour, employers who sign up to the platform can purchase and distribute vouchers for activities to their employees, turning them into beneficiaries of services offered by domestic providers.

Domestic activities vouchers can be granted in the form of a premium or bonus, specifying the name, first name and personal numerical code of the employee who can use the domestic activities voucher, these data being written on the voucher.

Upon purchasing at least 600 vouchers in one year, employers and beneficiaries can receive 75 vouchers for free in the following year.

What are the household activities for which vouchers are issued

Household activities that can be remunerated with vouchers include:

• arranging and serving the meal;
• cleaning / maintenance of the pool;
• house cleaning/sanitization;
• ironing clothes;
• clearing and washing dishes;
• feeding/care of pets,
• walking pets;
• food preparation;
• planting trees/shrubs;
• planting seedlings;
• making purchases based on the list;
• harvesting fruits and vegetables;
• washing carpets;
• washing windows and carpentry;
• washing clothes;
• washing and cleaning of motor vehicles;
• collecting plant debris from nature.

Transactions will be done digitally

The launch of the digital ticket management platform for domestic workers enables all ticket transactions to be done digitally.

This means purchasing and recording working hours, recording details of domestic workers’ activity, such as number of hours and type of domestic activity performed, and interoperability of databases from multiple institutions.

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