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WHO WRITES LAWS?
Lragir.am
13 Dec 2010
The government's initiative in connection with the temporary
disability benefits which deprives pregnant women, who have high
salaries, of the possibility to get an equally high benefit, brought
about unprecedented protests by pregnant women. The decision of the
government to listen to the pregnant and change the law it had adopted
was the same unprecedented. A pregnant woman, during Haylur news
program on Public TV, stated that it is good that the government cares
for what the society says and changes its decisions.
Of course it is good. But the issue is who the government listened to
when adopting the law which was ratified by the National Assembly and
signed by Serge Sargsyan. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, during the
same TV report, was explaining that they `had listened' to the Control
Chamber which carried out a study and revealed that many pregnant
women present false certificates of salary to get higher benefits. The
government decided to eliminate the difference of benefit amount to
fight this vicious phenomenon.
No doubt there can be such an issue of false certificates which is to
be fought. But did it not occur to the government that women, who
already became mothers, had planned their budget in accord with the
existing at that time situation. Did the pregnant have to hold protest
actions for the government to understand its omission?
Who writes the laws, with whom they consult, on what they rely,
whether they have a clear image of the reality or they are just led by
the books and lectures they read and listened to? Only a clear idea of
the life can promote elaborating drafts bettering life conditions.
Otherwise, the law is adopted then in the future it is found out that
it needs to be amended.
The subject of TV reports should not be the appraisal of our
government as if it cares for what the society is saying and changes
its adopted laws, but the issue on who writes the laws, whom they talk
to when writing it and whether they try to learn about a possible
reaction of the public to their law.
YEGHISHE METSARENTS
From: A. Papazian
Lragir.am
13 Dec 2010
The government's initiative in connection with the temporary
disability benefits which deprives pregnant women, who have high
salaries, of the possibility to get an equally high benefit, brought
about unprecedented protests by pregnant women. The decision of the
government to listen to the pregnant and change the law it had adopted
was the same unprecedented. A pregnant woman, during Haylur news
program on Public TV, stated that it is good that the government cares
for what the society says and changes its decisions.
Of course it is good. But the issue is who the government listened to
when adopting the law which was ratified by the National Assembly and
signed by Serge Sargsyan. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, during the
same TV report, was explaining that they `had listened' to the Control
Chamber which carried out a study and revealed that many pregnant
women present false certificates of salary to get higher benefits. The
government decided to eliminate the difference of benefit amount to
fight this vicious phenomenon.
No doubt there can be such an issue of false certificates which is to
be fought. But did it not occur to the government that women, who
already became mothers, had planned their budget in accord with the
existing at that time situation. Did the pregnant have to hold protest
actions for the government to understand its omission?
Who writes the laws, with whom they consult, on what they rely,
whether they have a clear image of the reality or they are just led by
the books and lectures they read and listened to? Only a clear idea of
the life can promote elaborating drafts bettering life conditions.
Otherwise, the law is adopted then in the future it is found out that
it needs to be amended.
The subject of TV reports should not be the appraisal of our
government as if it cares for what the society is saying and changes
its adopted laws, but the issue on who writes the laws, whom they talk
to when writing it and whether they try to learn about a possible
reaction of the public to their law.
YEGHISHE METSARENTS
From: A. Papazian