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A blank official form and a pen on a kitchen table covered with a flowered oilcloth, next to a cup of tea and a pair of knitted booties.
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What the bill approved by the Government would mean for some 74 mothers in Ungheni district: maternity benefit from the father's income, only from 2028

The Government approved on Wednesday a bill that closes an old inequality: today an uninsured woman receives maternity benefit calculated from her husband's income, but not from the income of the child's father, if the two are not married. The bill changes that — provided the father acknowledges paternity and has a contribution period. Three things are not visible from the press release: the provisions enter into force on 1 January 2028, the concrete procedure is not yet written, and the Ministry of Finance issued a negative opinion twice, saying there is no source for the roughly 170 million lei.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Symbolic illustration: a worker's hands in an agricultural field and a phone showing a digital registration form, suggesting seasonal work moving into an electronic register.
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Ungheni farmers learn to register their day labourers online: the e-Zilier platform is now mandatory, and from 2027 fieldwork could get more expensive

At the Ungheni District Council, representatives of the Ministry of Labour and of the Farmers' Federation trained the district's agricultural producers on e-Zilier — the electronic register in which, since 1 June 2026, every seasonal worker must be logged before picking up a hoe, with an electronic signature and under threat of a fine if they are not entered in time. The platform promises less red tape and, for the first time, pension credit for day labourers. The local stakes are high: the district works some 30,000 hectares but has only around 1,200 formal agricultural employees — a sign that the bulk of fieldwork is precisely the seasonal kind the platform is bringing into the open. Hanging over it all is a separate tax proposal for 2027 that would raise contributions for day labourers from 0% to 21%.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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