Romanian Government Wants To Sack At Least 100,000 State Employees by Year-End

Romania’s Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu announced today that, according to the IMF agreement, Romania must sack at least 70,000 employees from the public sector until the end of the year, so that the total number of persons working in this sector will go down from 1.36 million to 1.29 million.

 

The minister said that the authoritie want to sack at least 100,000 persons so that the salaries of the remaining employees in the sector can be brought back to a decent level. The minister stressed he refers precisely to layoffs, as there are no more vacant positions in the public sector.