The Saeima has adopted and the President issued the following law: amendments to the law "on State social insurance" to make the law "on State social insurance" (Latvian Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1997, nr. 22; 1998, no. 15; 1999, no. 24; 2001, 15., 17. nr.) as follows: 1. Article 1:2 "make a point" as follows: "a person to work) contract on the agreed wages shall carry out work under the direction of the employer ,”;
turn off paragraph 2 under "f" words "(the official candidate)";
Supplement 3 to the "l" section as follows: "l) individual merchant;."
2. Supplement article 5, first subparagraph, after the words "compulsory active military service soldiers" with the words "alternative service providers";
3. in article 6: make the second and the third part as follows: "(2) employees who have reached the age giving entitlement to State old-age pension is subject to pension insurance, maternity and sickness insurance and insurance against work accidents. Employees who have group I and II disabled persons, are subject to pension insurance, disability insurance, maternity and sickness insurance and insurance against work accidents.
(3) the self-employed whose income reaches the Cabinet down payment minimum, the object is subject to pension insurance, disability insurance, maternity and sickness insurance, but the self-employed who have reached the age giving entitlement to State old-age pension is subject to pension insurance, maternity and sickness insurance ".
adding to the fourth paragraph of point 1, the words "and alternative service providers";
adding to the fifth subparagraph of paragraph 1, the words "and alternative service providers";
to make the ninth subparagraph by the following: "(9) domestic workers to the employer, alien, which reached the age giving entitlement to State old-age pension is subject to pension insurance, maternity and sickness insurance. Domestic worker to the employer, alien, which is a group I or II disabled persons, are subject to pension insurance, disability insurance, maternity and sickness insurance ".
replace the eleventh and twelfth paragraph, the words "economic work" with the words "economic activity";
to supplement the article with the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth of the following wording: "(14) a Person who is a worker and at the same time receive remuneration, the author-also have the right to choose: either income from royalties not to make social security payments, or income from royalties to make compulsory social insurance contributions according to the prescribed rate and the self-employed.
(15) a Person who, by making the same income, while more socially insured persons to the status of social insurance is subject as worker or domestic worker to the employer, alien.
(16) the foreign workers to employers — alien, which, by making the same income, while more socially insured persons to the status of social insurance are exposed as foreign workers to employers — alien. "
4. Replace article 9, second paragraph, the words "in accordance with the law" on compulsory social insurance against unemployment "with the words" in accordance with the law "on insurance against unemployment".
5. To make article 14 the seventh subparagraph by the following: "(7) in the first subparagraph within the payment are not included in the object of the right of workers in employer contributions to private pension funds under the royalty paid in pension plans and life insurance (with funds accrual) bonus amounts do not exceed in total 10 percent of the worker's estimated gross income during the current calendar year and paid in life (without funds accrual) , health or accident insurance premiums, which total not exceeding five Cabinet minimum wages during the calendar year, if: 1) life insurance (with storage) period is not less than five years;
2) life (without funds accrual), health or accident insurance period is not less than one year;
3) the life, health or accident insurance, the provisions of the Treaty provides that the insurance reimbursement for claims paid to the insured person (or their beneficiaries) other amounts associated with the operation of the agreement or its termination, the employer costs, and does not provide for the issuance of loans to the insured persons;
4) employer pēctaksācij period on the first day of the second month of no tax liability for prior periods. "
6. Supplement article 16.1 to the fifth subparagraph by the following: "(5) If this law, article 1, paragraph 2, subparagraph a, the persons referred to in the employer calculated by mandatory contributions from wages and salaries, which is less than the Cabinet's minimum wage, and there is no supporting document that confirms this, the tax administration shall recover from the employer's mandatory contributions and the interest payment of the amounts that matches the Cabinet defined minimum wage. "
7. Express article 18 the first paragraph by the following: "(1) the compulsory payment rate if employee is insured for all types of social insurance, is 33 percent, of which 24 per cent payable by the employer and 9 percent — worker. This rate does not include work accident insurance payment rate. "
8. Article 20: make the third and fourth subparagraph by the following: "(3) the employer shall calculate the payment to be made for each worker who: 1) reached the age giving entitlement to State old-age pension by multiplying contribution object with the minimum rate of contribution, a certain employer, public pension insurance, maternity and sickness insurance and insurance against occupational accidents;
2) is a group I or II disabled by multiplying contribution object with the minimum rate of contribution, a certain employer, public pension insurance, disability insurance, maternity and sickness insurance and insurance against work accidents.
(4) the employer shall calculate the payment to be made by a worker who: 1) reached the age giving entitlement to State old-age pension by multiplying contribution object with the minimum rate of contribution, a certain State worker retirement insurance and maternity and sickness insurance;
2) is a group I or II disabled by multiplying contribution object with the minimum rate of contribution, a certain State worker retirement insurance, disability insurance and maternity and sickness insurance ".
to make the seventh subparagraph by the following: "(7) the domestic worker to the employer — aliens: 1) is calculated by multiplying the minimum contributions payment object with this law, in article 18, the minimum rate of contribution, other than rate specific work accident insurance;
2) if the worker has reached the age giving entitlement to State old-age pension, calculated by multiplying the minimum contributions payment object with this law, in article 18, the minimum rate of contribution, other than rate specific work accident insurance, insurance against unemployment and disability insurance;
3) if the worker is a group I or II disabled, calculated by multiplying the minimum contributions payment object with this law, in article 18, the minimum rate of contribution, other than rate specific work accident insurance and insurance against unemployment. "
9. transitional provisions be supplemented with 21, 22 and 23 of the following paragraph: "21. Amended article 5, first paragraph of article 6, paragraph 1 of the fourth part, and fifth subparagraph in point 1 of the alternative service workers, as well as article 6 of the fifteenth and sixteenth part shall enter into force on 1 July 2002.
22. Article 1, paragraph 3, the "l" and article 6 of the fourteenth amendment, as well as the seventh subparagraph of article 14 shall apply from 1 January 2002.
23. the amendment to the second paragraph of article 6 concerning the workers ' group I or II disabled persons — exposure to disability insurance, the third paragraph of article 6 concerning the self-employed Group I or II disabled persons — exposure to disability insurance, article 6, concerning the ninth part of the domestic worker to the employer, alien, group I or II disabled persons exposure to disability insurance, as well as article 20 of the third, fourth and seventh in the part concerning workers and domestic workers to the employer, alien, group I or II disability exposure to disability insurance shall enter into force on 1 January 2003. "
The Parliament adopted the law on 6 June 2002.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga on 21 June 2002, an editorial added: the law shall enter into force by July 5, 2002.