Group leaders also decided not to hold the regular plenary meeting next Monday to allow special parliament committees to work on the bill.
The Chamber’s committee for labor has until November 14 to draw up a report on the social welfare bill, that will then be put to the vote in plenary, House secretary Niculae Mircovici said earlier Tuesday. MPs may submit amendments to the bill by November 11.
Mircovici said the bill needs to be put to the vote as soon as possible so the Parliament can move on to debate and vote on the 2012 state budget.
The bill was adopted tacitly by the Senate last week, after the opposition stalled it for weeks on end.
President Traian Basescu wrote to Parliament twice urging the bills adoption and has said the Government might have to resort to adopting it through a confidence vote otherwise.