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HP Romania To Hire Another 600 People At Bucharest-Based Services Center GeBOC In 2011
Hewlett Packard (HP) Romania intends to recruit 600 people in 2011 at its Bucharest-based services center Global eBusiness Operations (GeBOC). A similar number of people were hired in 2010, according to GeBOC general manager Alexander Weigl. Weigl said Romania is an interesting market, but, unfortunately, university graduates are poorly trained and their skills have deteriorated over the past few years. He added foreign languages will be a requirement for employment. The GeBOC center had 2,500 employees at the end of October and the average age within the company is 26. GeBOC provides high-value and cost-effective remote processing services to customers in the EMEA-region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Its specialists with multi-lingual capabilities support financial and administrative business processes for partners and customers in the region. The center's activity is structured in five divisions: Global Business... citeste mai mult
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. citeste mai mult
IMF Asks Romania To Cut 250,000 Public Jobs On Medium-Term
Jeffrey Franks, head of the IMF mission to Romania, thinks that the number of public employees in Romania should be reduced by 250,000 people on the medium-term to match the numbers before 2006. "Over the past three years, precisely between 2006 and 2008, the public sector added 250,000 employees. The figures must be reverted (to the ones before 2006). This can be done over a period of several years, not necessarily in just one year," said Franks. The official added that the exact number of layoffs in the public sector for 2010 is not specified in Romania's letter of intent to a EUR13 billion loan with the IMF, but the layoffs are implicit. According to Finance Ministry data, between December 2008 and February 2010, the public sector was reduced by 36,000 jobs, bringing the total number of employees to 1.36 million. citeste mai mult
Romania Cannot Raise Public Sector Wages
Romanian Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu didn’t have any comments regarding the decision of public administration employees to cease work for two hours Tuesday morning disgruntled by wage cuts and planned layoffs. As for the ones who want bigger wages, the minister said that the Government cannot raise salaries this year. "My message for those who protest over furlough is that the issue will be solved Friday. On the other hand, I want to tell those who want bigger salaries there are no means for that. We cannot raise salaries," Vladescu said Tuesday. citeste mai mult
15,000 Education Employees To Be Laid Off
Simion Hancescu, vice-president of Romanian education union FSLI, said on Monday that more than 10,000 public education system employees would be saked. The unionists will meet on Wednesday with Education Minister Daniel Funeriu and the Social Dialogue Commission and they will be informed that, according to the Education Ministry's analyses, it is possible to apply Government Emergency Ordinance 114/2009 cutting 15,000 jobs in the system as of September 1, 2010. Minister Fueriu said on January 12 that the Ordinance can be applied without affecting the education process. citeste mai mult
Romanian Subway Unionists To Call General Strike
Ion Radoi, union leader at Metrorex, Romania’s state-owned subway company, announced that the company’s employees will go on general strike indefinitely as of November 16 if negotiations with management on wage raises fail. If the general strike is triggered, the subway in Bucharest will only cover one third of its regular activity. As a result, trains will only run between 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. More than a quarter of the Romanian capital's population takes the subway every day. Metrorex employees are upset because the government has not yet approved the company's 2010 budget and they can't negotiate their collective labor contract and a 26% wage raise. Ion Radoi also announced that subway employees will picket the Government headquarters daily starting Tuesday. citeste mai mult
Romania To Scrap 20,282 jobs till the end of the year
Romania's employment agency ANOFM announced that, until the end of the year, about 20,282 jobs will be cut. Last week, the agency reported that 4,882 employees were fired. 216 companies operated layoffs in the last week, most of which are in capital Bucharest (22) and counties Prahova (17), Timis (14), Vaslui (13), Galati, Cluj, Bacau (ten in each), Arges (nine), Gorj, Ialomita and Harghita (seven in each), Arad, Sibiu, Vrancea and Satu Mare (six in each). The highest number of scrapped jobs announced between September and December is planned for Bucharest (2,788) and the counties Prahova (2,554), Timis (2,376), Arges (1,135), Gorj (1,071), Bacau (983), Alba (850), Vaslui (750), Dolj (744), Galati (710) and Cluj (562). Between January and August 2009, 138,508 positions were scrapped. citeste mai mult
Romania To Scrap 20,282 jobs till the end of the year
Romania's employment agency ANOFM announced that, until the end of the year, about 20,282 jobs will be cut. Last week, the agency reported that 4,882 employees were fired. 216 companies operated layoffs in the last week, most of which are in capital Bucharest (22) and counties Prahova (17), Timis (14), Vaslui (13), Galati, Cluj, Bacau (ten in each), Arges (nine), Gorj, Ialomita and Harghita (seven in each), Arad, Sibiu, Vrancea and Satu Mare (six in each). The highest number of scrapped jobs announced between September and December is planned for Bucharest (2,788) and the counties Prahova (2,554), Timis (2,376), Arges (1,135), Gorj (1,071), Bacau (983), Alba (850), Vaslui (750), Dolj (744), Galati (710) and Cluj (562). Between January and August 2009, 138,508 positions were scrapped. citeste mai mult
Earnings evolution in Romania after nine months of crisis –financing: +34%, budgetary: - 7%
Employees earnings from the financial intermediation, energy and insurance sectors, have recorded the most significant accession since the international crisis started to show its effects on the Romanian market. During the October 2008 – June 2009 period, the average net salary in Romania saw a 3.9 percent increase. So, if at the beginning of the fourth trimester of last year the average net salary was 1.327 Lei, at the end of the first six months of 2009 the average net salary reached 1.379 Lei. During October 2008 the average salary in the financial intermediation sector was 2.935 Lei. At the end of the year, the average earnings of a Romanian employee, in this sector, grew by 1.000 Lei compared to last year, reaching 3.935 Lei. In this conditions, the average earning on this market recorded a 34% increase, in full economical degradation. On the second spot in the top most significant salary increases are the employees in the utilities sector. Here, the... citeste mai mult
Romania's poorest areas will be the most affected by the financial crisis
Dark times for unemployment at Iasi. With or without being related to the world crisis, the capital city of Moldavia is facing with a dramatically situation in what concerns the layoffs. Hundred of persons have already lost their jobs through collective or individual layoffs. The local authorities estimate that till next spring other 2.000 persons risk to be dismissed, directing the unemployment rate of Iasi to rise over 10%. The world crisis will hit the Iasi county , but its effects will be strongly felt in a few months. The capital city of Moldavia is already facing a wave of layoffs that will take vast proportion at the beginning of next year. For spring, the local authorities estimate an explosive unemployment rate, of more than 10%. The main branches that will be affected by this calamity are the textile and metallurgy industry. The subject was debated also in the Social Dialogue Commission, organized by the Prefecture of Iasi, where it was tried to be anticipated the... citeste mai mult
