Project: Employers will be able to choose to “pay” the salary fees with the amounts to be recovered for medical leave

According to a draft law, starting with 2023, salary taxes could be “paid” with sick leave allowances that the state must return to employers.

How will it be done?

Instead of waiting for months for the reimbursement of sick leave allowances, employers could compensate them with the salary taxes (income tax, health contribution, pension contribution and work insurance contribution) they have to pay through declaration 112.
When the employer opts for this compensation, he will submit to the Health Insurance House, by 25 of the following month for the current month, Annex 1.1 of the statement 112, together with the supporting documents of the medical leave granted.

The bill also provides for:

• setting a period of 30 days from the submission of the refund application, in which the Health Insurance House will issue a decision for approving or rejecting the amounts requested;
• the fact that the allowance will be fully borne by the state from the first day of sick leave (at this moment, the employer bears the allowance for the first five days of sick leave from his own funds).

We look forward to the approval of this bill, the measures being auspicious, leading to the elimination of the problems faced by employers: To wait for the reimbursement of sick leave allowances, to bear from their own funds the allowance for the first five days of sick leave.