As of May 22, Law No. 59/2020 has come into effect, approving Government Emergency Ordinance No. 30/2020 for amending and supplementing certain legislative acts, as well as establishing measures in the field of social protection in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

The main changes regarding technical unemployment and the leave granted for child supervision are as follows:

– In the case of leave for child supervision, the content of the declaration by the second parent, i.e., the one who is not requesting rights under Law No. 19/2020, is modified. Therefore, the request from the first parent must be accompanied by a self-declaration from the other parent, stating that they have not requested leave at their workplace that they would be entitled to under this law, that their employment contract is not suspended due to the temporary interruption of the employer’s activity, and that they are not in any of the situations provided for in Article 1, paragraph (33) of Law 19/2020, along with a copy of the birth certificate(s) of the child(ren).

– Regarding the period of technical unemployment granted under OUG No. 30/2020, by way of derogation from the provisions of Law No. 53/2003 – the Labor Code, and Law No. 165/2018 concerning the granting of vouchers, employers can provide meal vouchers to employees whose employment contracts are suspended under Article 52, paragraph (1), letter c) of Law No. 53/2003 (i.e., temporary interruption of the employer’s activity, namely technical unemployment) as a result of the declaration of a state of emergency.

The employees mentioned above will receive meal vouchers exclusively in electronic format. The value of the electronic meal vouchers is transferred monthly to employees by the issuing unit corresponding to the number of working days in the month for which the transfer is made, according to the contract concluded by the issuing unit with the employer.

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