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A special law was drafted in the Seimas of the previous legislature, which was supposed to regulate the issues of work, rest and provision of the parliamentarians, but when the positions were divided, it remained unresolved.
“I think it is necessary to discuss, because the current situation is really uncertain. As we know from previous terms, this is a very complex and sensitive issue, but we will return to it, ”V. Čmilytė-Nielsen told BNS.
He announced that Jonas Jaručius, Vice President of Seimas, was instructed to delve into this issue and present possible solutions.
I think it needs to be debated because the current situation is really uncertain.
“We talked about it with Jonas Jarutis. He has the task of curating issues related to the guarantees of the Seimas members, leave, maternity and paternity and all other matters. In fact, it will be on our agenda, we will talk about it on the board, I think that soon. We will have to return to that issue, “said the president of Seimas.
J. Jarutis himself said that he had not yet managed to address this issue, but did not doubt that a detailed discussion would be necessary in the Seimas during the negotiations on the establishment of the holidays.
He pointed out that a compromise must be found between the interpretation of the Constitutional Court (CC) and the attitude of the members of the Seimas themselves regarding the regulation of their work and rest.
Another vice president of the Parliament, in charge of supervising the implementation of the decisions of the CC, the social democrat Julius Sabatauskas proposes to start working on the draft Law on Working Conditions of the deputies to the Seimas prepared by the Seimas working group during the previous legislature .
“The theme of the holidays, of course, probably arouses the greatest passions, it is also evaluated in a controversial way among the members of the Seimas. (…) However, the Constitutional Court said that the members of the Seimas, like all citizens, have the right to leave, ”J. Sabatauskas told BNS.
He recalled that said bill is stuck in the Law and Order Committee of the Seimas.
Photo by Lukas Balandi / 15min / Julius Sabatauskas
“It will simply be necessary to move the committee to consider the project,” said J. Sabatauskas.
“But in this case, it is an open issue (permission of the members of the Seimas – BNS), which must be resolved. We will see if it will be resolved in this period, but it is my duty as vice president of the Seimas, who has the task of supervising the implementation of the resolution of the CC, and of supervising and moving or encouraging other colleagues to urge the committees responsible for solving them ” . – said the parliamentarian.
In 2005, the Constitutional Court held that the continuity of the activities of the members of the Seimas does not mean that a member of the Seimas cannot exercise their constitutional right to rest and recreation, as well as to paid annual leave.
In the parliament of the previous legislature, at the initiative of the then president of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis, a working group was formed to prepare a special bill, which would contemplate both the leave of the members of the Seimas as well as the remuneration procedure and other guarantees social.
The presentation of this law in the Seimas Hall took place in July 2017, but did not provide for the regulation of the parliamentary license. The task force was unable to agree on a vacation model that would satisfy the majority of Seimas members.
Arvydas Nekrošius, the then vice president of the Seimas, who led the working group, stated that it had been decided that the activities of a member of the Seimas would not be interrupted and that he planned the time between sessions at his own discretion.
V. Pranckietis, then first vice president of the “Peasant” Seimas Rima Baškienė and now former chair of the “Peasant” Law and Order Committee Agnė Širinskienė had prepared a proposal for this bill to grant Seimas members 40 working days of vacation yearly.
This proposal was going to be discussed in the parliamentary committees together with the bill and other proposals.
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