08.16.2012

Full-time employees in Romania worked the longest weekly hours in the EU in 2011 – 41.3 hours, the same as in 2010, but had the fewest days off on public holidays and ranked next-to-last by number more

06.26.2012

The human resource services market is estimated at EUR150 million in 2011, when it rose by 21%, as companies resumed growth after 2008 and 2009 when three of the top players posted decline of up to more

06.15.2012

The Norwegian Government on Friday decided to lift the barriers to the labor market for Romanian citizens, the Romanian Foreign Ministry informs. more

05.24.2012

Only 10% of the Roma in Romania have had a constant job in the last two years and, although 50% say they are self-employed, in fact 90% of them work illegally, says a study published Thursday by the more

05.24.2012

The Labor Ministry has enough statistics to solve deficiencies on the labor market, but it needs to find simple methods to increase budget revenues and to direct the money to areas where there is more

05.17.2012

The number of employees in the Romanian economy reached 4.25 million people in March, marking a return to the level registered in June 2010, before the government raised the value added tax rate from more

05.04.2012

Clothing retailer C&A, one of the largest players in Europe, manufactures around eight million clothing items under contract in Romania, and then sells them from its European stores. more

03.29.2012

Human resources managers in 2012 are tired of signing layoff decisions. It is time to reinvent themselves and find new solutions to boost performance and motivate employees through simple things, and more

03.28.2012

Labor costs in Romania have reached EUR314 million per workday, from EUR210 million in 2000, Real Hypermarket HR director Valentin Pauna said Wednesday. more

03.02.2012

The Romanian Government is set to draft the legislation needed to protect elderly people, Labor Minister Claudia Boghicevici said Friday during a press conference to launch the European Year 2012 for more

02.28.2012

Structural funds for human resource development in Romania have no macroeconomic effects; their absorption does not improve the state of the labor market or counter the crisis, says a study by union more

02.27.2012

Population aging and declining bring on a gloomy outlook for the labor market and impose, alongside other negative factors, rapid measures like market “flexibilization”, job creation and lure back more

01.19.2012

Romanian President Traian Basescu told diplomats Thursday that the decision of nine European Union member states not to lift work restrictions for Romanians is “completely unjustified.” more

01.10.2012

Romania will ask the European Commission to explain if the decision of nine EU member states to keep work restrictions for Romanians is justified considering that, under the country’s EU Acession more

01.06.2012

Nine of the eleven EU member states that applied work restrictions for Romanians informed the European Commission in time that they will not open their labor markets yet. more

01.03.2012

Higher salaries, especially for managers, employee numbers on the rise and jobless rate keeping constant – this is what the main indicators of the labor market show for 2012, which seems to bring more

12.29.2011

Italy has decided to lift all labor market restrictions for Romanians and Bulgarians on December 31, 2011, the Romanian Labor Ministry said Thursday. more

12.28.2011

Romania's Labor Ministry has said in a statement that child allowance benefits will not be cut if the beneficiaries fail to pay their local taxes, as previously reported, under a Government emergency more

12.19.2011

Sulfina Barbu, the fourth labor minister this year, admitted that institutions part of the ministry she runs, such as the National Employment Agency, the Labor Inspection Department, the National more

12.18.2011

The Irish and Belgian governments decided to extend working restrictions in their countries for Romanians and Bulgarians until end-2013. more

12.16.2011

Romania’s EU fund absorption rate through the operational program for human resources development (POSDRU) has doubled since September 2011, but the increase pace is far from satisfactory, Romanian more

12.16.2011

Total hourly labor costs in the Romanian economy rose 7.9% on the year in July through September, the second-biggest increase in the European Union, official data showed Friday. more

12.08.2011

The Romanian Labor Ministry proposed that the gross minimum wage per month in 2012 be set at 700 lei (EUR161), according to a draft decision put forward Thursday by the institution. more

11.24.2011

Romanian Labor Minister Sulfina Barbu and Israeli Interior Minister Eliyahu Yishai on Thursday signed an agreement to step up negotiations to allow for temporary employment of Romanians in the more

11.23.2011

Controls to restrict how Romanian and Bulgarian nationals access the UK labor market will be extended until the end of 2013, British Immigration Minister Damian Green announced Wednesday, the British more