Background information

By Emergency Ordinance, the Executive has regulated indemnity for employees that have lost their jobs directly or indirectly by the impossibility of conducting transactions with economic operators in Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Belarus because of the effects caused by the Russian military aggression in Ukraine or by international sanctions. The measure will be borne by the unemployment insurance budget. This measure is granted until 31 December 2023.

Content of measure

Employers who have a decrease of at least 20% in their income in the month for which they apply for the measure compared to the income in January 2022 or compared to the income in the same month of 2021, as well as those who have their funds or economic resources blocked by an order issued by the President of the National Tax Administration Agency, will be eligible for this support.

Those employees whose employers suspend their individual employment contract will receive an indemnity of 75% of the basic salary corresponding to the job held, but no more than 75% of the average gross salary provided for by the State Social Insurance Budget Law for 2022 no. 318/2021.

Use of measure

From May to December 2022, 547 employees were beneficiaries of the measure. The amount paid by the state was 6,325,445 RON (approx. €1.26 million).

In 2023, 227 employees were beneficiaries of the measure and the amount paid by the state was 2,746,207 RON (approx. €549,241).

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Other groups of workers	Does not apply to businesses	Does not apply to citizens

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
National government	National funds

Social partners

Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:

	Trade unions	Employers' organisations
Role	Unknown	Unknown
Form	Not applicable	Not applicable

Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:

• Unknown
• Main level of involvement: N/A

Involvement

No public information is available on the involvement of social partners in the designing, implementing and monitoring of the measure.

Views and reactions

There is no publicly available information about the social partners' views or reaction on the measure.

Sources

• 06 April 2022: Press release Employees of employers affected by the war in Ukraine will benefit from an allowance paid from funds from the unemployment insurance budget (mmuncii.ro)
• 07 April 2022: Government Ordinance no. 36/6 April 2022 (Ordonanță de urgență nr. 36 din 6 aprilie 2022) (legislatie.just.ro)
• 31 December 2022: The National Agency for Employment Activity Report for 2022 (ANOFM, Raport de activitate pentru anul 2022) (www.anofm.ro)
• 31 December 2023: The National Agency for Employment Activity Report for 2023 (ANOFM, Raport de activitate pentru anul 2023) (www.anofm.ro)