The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the amendments to the law "on maternity and sickness insurance" to make the law "on maternity and sickness insurance" (Latvian Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1996, 1., no. 4; 1998, no. 15, no. 1; 2001; 2002; 2003, 22 no, no 2, 2004, 23; 5. No; 2005, 2. No; 2007, 24 no; 2009, 2., no. 15; Latvian journal, 2009, 200. no; 2010, no. 201; 2011, 99, 202. no; 2012, nr. 192; 13, 191, no. 228; 2014, no. 225; 2015, 56, nr. 248.) the following amendments: 1. Supplement article 5 with the seventh subparagraph by the following: "(7) if the person's pregnancy or maternity leave during the losing worker or self-employed status, maternity benefit is paid for the entire pregnancy leave and maternity leave, for which issued disability page." 2. Express 10.1 and 10.2 of the article as follows: "article 10.1. Paternity grants benefits and paternity allowance period of paternity benefits are granted and paid for the leave granted 10 calendar days: 1) the child's father for the birth of children; 2) one of the parents due to the ārpusģimen of an existing child care up to the age of three years of adoption. 10.2 article. Paternity allowance allocation basis

Paternity allowance allocation allowance is requesting the application, information about the child's father and the child's family or legal registration of facts the entry into force of the judgment of the Court of ārpusģimen in the care of the child under the age of three years, as well as the approval of the adoption of employer's confirmation of the child's father being on vacation due to birth, or one of the parents being on vacation due to the adoption of a child. " 3. Express 10.4 of the first paragraph of article 1 the introductory paragraph as follows: "1") is employed at the date of the award of benefits (are considered as self-employed workers under the law "on State social insurance") or due to the birth of this child has had pregnancy or maternity leave, and: ". 4. To make the third paragraph of article 10 by the following: "(3) the parental allowance to which the requested calendar month's income as an employee or self-employed, the benefits of all this calendar month are charged 30 percent from under the second paragraph of this article, the assigned benefits." 5. in article 11: adding to article with a new first paragraph as follows: "(1) sickness benefit is granted to a person if that person has been made in the Republic of Latvia or by State social insurance contributions for sickness insurance for not less than three months in the last six months preceding the month in which the accident occurs, or not less than six months in the last 24 months preceding the month in which the accident occurs will and the person is a worker or self-employed status during the period of incapacity for work. The necessary condition of the insurance indemnity shall not apply to sickness benefits in cases where the grant is being groomed for the sick a child under 14 years of age. "; believe the current text of the second paragraph of article. 6. Supplement article 13 with the fourth and fifth by the following: "(4) if the work could not continue after a worker or self-employed capacity loss, sickness benefits for a continuous work could not continue to pay the 30 calendar days from the date when the person lost the worker's or the self-employed status. This condition does not apply to sickness benefits in cases where the grant is being groomed for the sick a child under 14 years of age. (5) If, in the fourth paragraph of this article, in case the person specified at the same time have the right to sickness benefits and unemployment benefits, then this time paid only sickness benefits. " 7. Turn off article 15. 8. Express article 26, first paragraph as follows: "(1) the Allowance is requested to the law" on State social insurance "in order." 9. Article 31: turn off the second part; make the third paragraph as follows: "(3) the cabinet shall determine the average insurance contributions wage conditions of calculation and order."; turn off the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth. 10. transitional provisions be supplemented with 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 36, as follows: "28. Paternity allowance to one parent due to ārpusģimen an existing child care up to the age of three years shall be granted for the adoption of children whose adoption of the judgment of the Court of Justice entered into force after 1 January 2017. In this case, the person to whom the right to paternity allowance period have arisen from 1 January 2017 until 31 December 2017, the allowance may be paid not later than 30 June 2017. 29. The Person with the disability occurred a month after a worker or self-employed status loss and first day of incapacity until 2016 had been December 31, sickness benefit is granted and paid in accordance with the legal framework in force up to 31 December 2016 for the granting of sickness benefit the person with the disability occurred a month after State social insurance contributions for the end of the period. 30. The Person work could not continue after the worker's or the self-employed status loss and the first sick day was up to 2017 31 December, sickness benefit is granted and paid in accordance with the legal framework in force until 2017 31 December in relation to the grant of sickness benefits the person work could not continue after the worker's or the self-employed status loss. 31. If this law, the first subparagraph of article 31 and article 32 in the average insurance contributions wage determination in part of the period of insurance the insured person salary was not temporary incapacity for work, maternity leave, leave for the child's father or the adoptive parent of the need to maintain the child leave granted without wage saving or parental leave, the average insurance contributions wage of State social insurance benefits in calculating the part of the period from January 1, 2018-2019, up to December 31, down 40 percent (maternity and paternity benefits, 70 percent) of the national average monthly insurance contribution wage. 32. If the insurance case occurs in the period from January 1, 2018-2019, up to 31 December and the claims an accession day person is the worker and self-employed status, average insurance contributions wage of State social insurance benefits shall be determined by calculating the sum of the calculated average insurance contributions wage gained the status of a worker, and the calculated average insurance contributions wage gained in a self-employed capacity, subject to the following conditions If this law: 1) the first subparagraph of article 31 and article 32 provides the average insurance contributions wage-setting period all calendar months the person in both capacities in the insurance contribution wages have been registered both as a worker and as a self-employed, the average insurance contribution wage is calculated by summing the estimated average insurance contributions calculated on the salary of both capacities separately; 2) If this Act article 31, first paragraph and laid down in article 32 the average insurance salaries in that part of the period for determining the person while both capacities have not been registered as a national social insurance contributors, average insurance salaries for this period is determined by the proportion of 40 percent (maternity and paternity benefits, 70 percent) of the national average monthly insurance contribution wage. In this case, 40 percent or 70 percent of the national average monthly insurance contribution wage applied only to the worker's status. 3) If this law, the first subparagraph of article 31 and article 32 in the average insurance salaries in that part of the period for determining the person in one of the status has not been registered as a national social insurance for payment, but this period has registered its average insurance contributions wage second, then part of the period in which the person has not been registered as a national social security contributor, the average of the salary insurance contributions for this period determines the share of 40 percent (maternity and paternity benefits, 70 percent) of the national average monthly insurance contribution wage; 4) If this Act article 31, first paragraph, and in article 32 the average insurance contributions wage-setting period all calendar months a person both capacities have not been registered as a national social insurance contributors, average insurance contributions wage down 40 percent (maternity and paternity benefits, 70 percent) of the national average monthly insurance contribution wage as a worker; 5) If this Act article 31, first paragraph, and in article 32 the average insurance contributions wage determination all calendar months period a person in one of the status has not been registered as a national social insurance contributors, average insurance contribution wage for the calculation of contributions, only salaries earned in the second. 33. Amendment of this law in the third paragraph of article 10 as regards parental allowances cost necessarily socially insured persons, the amendment in article 11 as regards the determination of the insurance indemnity for the granting of sickness benefit, this law article 13, fourth and fifth shall enter into force on January 1, 2018. 34. the amended article 31 of this law in relation to the exclusion of the seventh subparagraph shall enter into force on January 1, 2018. 35. The amendments to this law, article 31, third paragraph, and amended in connection with the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth part of the exclusion shall enter into force on January 1, 2020. 36. The Cabinet of Ministers until 2019 December 31 issued this law, article 31, third paragraph the provisions referred to in the average salary calculation of insurance contribution conditions and arrangements. " The law shall enter into force on January 1, 2017. The Parliament adopted the law in 2016, 23 November. The President r. vējonis Riga 2016 December 10