{"id":252621,"date":"2014-04-25T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T14:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=252621"},"modified":"2014-04-25T18:26:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T14:26:05","slug":"pension-reform-remains-unclear-after-parliamentary-committee-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/04\/25\/pension-reform-remains-unclear-after-parliamentary-committee-discussion.html","title":{"rendered":"Pension Reform Remains Unclear After Parliamentary Committee Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Acting RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Artem Asatryan (pictured) at a meeting of the National Assembly&#39;s Standing Committee on Social Affairs today presented the draft plan to free from penalties employers who did not make controversial mandatory pension contributions on behalf of their staff.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSome points were still unclear for some members of the committee; in particular, whether employers from now on will be required to make deductions from their employees&#39; wages or not.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter Asatryan addressed the committee, the chair, Republican Party of Armenia MP Hakob Hakobyan, asked for a clear answer to whether it is true that employers will not be held accountable for late payments or non-payments, but at the same time employers must continue to make deductions and keep those funds until the Constitutional Court&#39;s final decision on September 30.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAsatryan said nothing. He was asked to answer the same question by Armenian National Congress MP Lyudmila Sargsyan and Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) MP Artsvik Minasyan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAsatryan, however, continued to remain silent.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Will deductions be made from me [i.e. my salary]?&quot; Lyudmila Sargsyan repeated.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAsatryan answered the question with a question. &quot;What have you arranged with your employer?&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe acting minister then said the issue to charge in the future refers to recalculation, and beginning the process of recalculation is premature, since there isn&#39;t yet a legislative instrument.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;We have to consider that during this period 15,000 individuals made a choice [i.e. chose a private pension fund] and thus participated in the system. We have to find a solution also for them,&quot; he said, replying to a question on whether the money will be refunded or not.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnother question on whether, in the end, the system will be voluntary or obligatory, Asatryan said, &quot;It will be fine,&quot; and then added, &quot;For all.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArmenian Revolutionary Federation representative Aghvan Vardanyan said, in fact, the new plan is a half step and will complicate the situation further. If this plan isn&#39;t changed, he will vote against it, Vardanyan declared.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/armenpress.am\/eng\/multimedia\/slideshows\/52097\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">Armenpress<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Artem Asatryan at a meeting of the National Assembly&#8217;s Standing Committee on Social Affairs&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55071,11703,53142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}