Labor Ministry to Re-Draft Unconstitutional Pensions Law Provisions

Romanian Labor Minister Marius Budai announced on Monday that he will order the redrafting of three provisions from the pensions law proposed by his predecessor, Lia Olguta Vasilescu, after they failed a check by the Constitutional Court.

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The minister said that the provisions declared unconstitutional will be “reformulated so that no one can say they are interpretable”, after the court will publish its reasoning for rejecting the bill in the country’s Official Journal.

Romania’s Constitutional Court argued in the reasoning document that the bill contains unclear provisions on the taxpayers’ obligation to pay their contributions, calling the terms used in the initiative “improper” and able to create legal confusion.

The court also rejected a provision which sets a minimum 15-year contribution term for individuals receiving a handicap pension, pointing to a previous decision it made on the matter and calling the condition “unreasonable”.

The Constitutional Court declared the bill partially unconstitutional in March, following challenges from opposition parties PNL and USR.

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