Maternity and Childhood Protection Legislations

The Supreme Council deputies Sergei Cheban and Viktor Guzun proposed to change the mechanism for paying maternity and temporary disability benefits to employees of micro-enterprises and small enterprises. The enterprise will accrue funds, and the Unified State Social Insurance Fund will pay them directly to the employee. In addition, according to parliamentarians, women-individual entrepreneurs should have the right to pregnancy and childbirth allowance and a one-time allowance when registering early in pregnancy. All these ideas are reflected in the package of legislations. Today they were considered by the deputy corps at a plenary session and adopted in the first reading.

As for the payments of maternity benefits for individual entrepreneurs, the parliamentarian noted that this category, in contrast to employees of public and private structures, does not receive these funds. If an employer deducts social payments for employees of the budgetary or commercial spheres from the amount of wages, then individual entrepreneurs independently pay social payments, depending on the special tax regime. Self-employed persons and those who apply a patent or simplified taxation system are subject to the unified social tax at a rate of 14% and a mandatory insurance premium at a rate of 3%.

The authors draw attention to the fact that often individual entrepreneurs file a patent several months before going on maternity leave, and are legally entitled to payments. In this direction, the joint work of the deputies and the Government will continue. Work on the package of legislations will continue for the second reading.