Rules for Romanians’ children working abroad

Romanian Senate has adopted a legislative initiative which provides that parents who have minor children and want to leave abroad will be obliged to leave the children in charge of a relative and also to inform local authorities before they leave the country.

According to the draft, the parent who is supposed to obtain a working contract abroad would be obliged to nominate a person, from the family, in whose care minor will remain.

The person in whose care is entrusted the child has to be older with at least 18 years than the child, to have the equivalent of the minimum gross salary per economy, to be familiarized with the raising of a child and not to have in charge more than three minors.

The initiators also propose that person in whose care will be the child to pass a psychological test, made by a specialist within the City Hall of residence place.

In the draft it is also provided that, if the minor is not adequate treated, he can be placed into an orphanage, at the initiative of the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection(DGSAPC) from the territorial-administrative unit where the child belongs.

The legislative initiative, which has received a favorable rapport from the Labour Committee, will be sent to the Deputies Chamber in the shape of initiator, this Chamber being though decisional.

According to temporary data of the population census, which took place last year, there would be outside the country almost one million Romanian citizens.

The sociologist Vasile Gheţău warned that the decline of population can be corrected only by “enormous human resources” and during a very long period of time.

In his opinion, the population decrease as consequent to deceases is more serious than the decrease due to migration.

“There are 20 years of natural decrease of population, which is more serious, in my opinion, than the decrease due to migration, because the decrease due to migration, at some point, theoretically, could be changed if the economic and social context will considerably improve in Romania”, has declared Vasile Gheţău, at Radio România Actualităţi.

According to preliminary data of the census from 2011, compared to 2002, the population has decreased with almost 2.7 million people, of which 2.2 million due to migration and 420.000, natural decrease.PHOTO: Population categories identified at the census. Source: INS.

Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea MTTLC, Bucharest University