The Attorney at Law's Social Security Rights with the Exception of Retirement Rights of the Paper

• Author: Matefi, R.
• Position: Law Department, Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 153-156

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 6 (55) No. 1 - 2013

THE ATTORNEY AT LAW’S SOCIAL

SECURITY RIGHTS WITH THE

EXCEPTION OF RETIREMENT

RIGHTS OF THE PAPER

Roxana MATEFI1

Abstract: This article aims to discuss the issue of the attorney at law’s

social security rights, according to the legislation in this particular domain,

namely the Statute of the Insurance Institution for Attorneys at Law. The

paper is divided into seven sections, covering: the main regulations

regarding the social security and retirement rights of the attorney at law;

general information; the allowance for temporary work inability; the

maternity allowance; the allowance for raising a child; death aid and the

means of payment for social security allowance.

Key words: social security, rights, allowance, aid, work inability,

retirement.

1 Law Department, Transilvania University of Braşov.

1. Regulation

Regulations regarding the social security

and retirement rights of the attorney at law

are to be found in Romanian law since the

beginning of the regulation of this

profession.

Beginning with the Law regarding the

organization of the advocate’s organization

in 1907, the Romanian Bar entered a time

of social organization, which lasted until

1919.

The institutions created during this time

were: the savings bank, the retirement and

the aids granted to the attorneys and their

families, the insurance institution for

attorneys at law.

In 1936, the Statute of the Romanian

Central Lawyers Retirement Institution

was passed and that of the Aid Institutions

of the Bar with the purpose of creating a

special retirement fund for lawyers and

their families. In 1940, the law for the

organization and functioning of the Central

Lawyers Social Security Institution was

passed; a law which was modified shortly

after it was passed in 1940.

One of the responsibilities of this

institution was to grant retirement funds to

lawyers, employees, widows and

descendants, in accordance with the

provisions of the law [1]

According to our current law, the

attorney at law has the right to retirement

and other social security right s based on

the provisions of the Government’s

Emergency Ordinance no 221/2000.

This law helped create a unique and

autonomous retirement and other social

security rights system, which is managed

by the Romanian Attorney at Law

Insurance Institution, an institution whose