Working in Romania

The latest on employment and workforce in Romania

Sorin Iordan, 19.10.2023, 12:02

Police
workers with the General Immigration Inspectorate, jointly with regional
employment inspectorates, are implementing a campaign between October 16 and
20, aimed at updating foreigners who study in Romania on the terms for a
possible employment in the country as well as on their rights and obligations
as employees here. The campaign takes place in universities across the country.
According to the General Immigration Inspectorate, as many as 17,615 foreign
nationals are studying in Romania, most of them from the R. Moldova, Morocco
and Israel, enrolled mostly in Bucharest, Iaşi, Cluj and Timiş.

Romania
has the highest employment rate in the EU in agriculture, forestry and
fisheries, according to data made public by the EU statistics office, Eurostat.
The largest employers in this respect are in the counties of Vaslui, 61.7%, and
Neamţ, 51.4%. Eight out of the 10 regions in the EU with the highest
employment rates in these sectors are in Romania. Iaşi County, also in the
north-east of the country, had the highest number of employees in 2020 – 146,200,
followed by 4 other regions in Romania, with over 100,000 employees each. Only
2 other regions in the EU were included in the top 10 employers in agriculture,
forestry and fisheries, namely Sandomiersko-jędrzejowski in Poland and Almería in
Spain.

Europe
is struggling with an acute workforce shortage, and the solution is to improve
youth skills, said the executive director of the European Labour Authority,
Cosmin Boiangiu at the European Business Forum held in Timişoara, western
Romania. Boiangiu emphasized that there are imbalances between countries in
terms of employment rates, and that workers from third countries are being
brought into Europe in order to offset this shortage. There is high demand for
workforce in sectors such as health care, IT, constructions and transports. Manpower
is much needed and we are seeing this in Romania as well, to a growing extent,
the ELA chief said. He also added that EU authorities are interested in
implementing a number of strategies concerning labour mobility and flexibility,
and one of the solutions is for employment to be based on skills, rather than
on the work experience or the education level.

The
number of foreign employees in Cluj County rose by 3,000 in the first 9 months
of this year, the General Immigration Inspectorate announced. According to the
institution, between January 1 and September 30, Cluj immigration police issued
over 3,400 stay permits, 640 of them for Sri Lanka nationals, 544 for Nepal
citizens, 363 for Indian nationals, 242 for Bangladesh citizens, and the others
for citizens from other countries. 806 registration certificates and 96
permanent residence cards were also issued to EU citizens. During the same
period, 2,851 documents were issued for permanent and posted workers. As for
illegal residents, during this period 541 inspections were conducted, with the
police identifying 44 foreigners staying here illegally. (AMP)