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Data from county employment agencies in Romania
Sorin Iordan, 06.02.2025, 13:17
More than 1,100 people are to be laid off in Brasov county, in central Romania, according to data from the County Employment Agency. 9 commercial companies in the county have announced their intention to carry out collective layoffs in 2025, the number of people to be laid off standing at 1,130. These are companies from the automotive industry, shoe manufacturing, manufacturing of plastic products, protection and security activities, investigative activities and private protection services and real estate management. In the last three months of last year, 184 employees in Braşov lost their jobs following collective layoffs. The Agency has also informed that, at the end of last year, there were approximately 7,000 unemployed people in its records, the unemployment rate standing at 2.65% in December 2024, a slight increase of 0.02% compared to the previous month.
The unemployment rate in Dolj County, in southwestern Romania, increased in 2024 by 1.5 percentage points, from 7.31% in January to 8.88% in November, according to the County Employment Agency. Thus, the total number of persons registered without a job was 20,406, of which 1,842 were beneficiaries of unemployment benefits. By age group, the most unemployed, 5,094, are from the 40-49 age bracket. Also, the unemployed without education and those with primary education have the highest share in total, of 37.2%. The Dolj CEA also shows that in order to reduce unemployment, measures aimed at increasing the chances of employment of people looking for a job, but also stimulating employers to employ the unemployed, are necessary. In Dolj county, the employment rate, which represents the percentage ratio between the civilian employed population and labor resources, decreased from 82% in 1990 to 57% in 2023, and at the national level it decreased from 82% to 64% . The lowest employment rate, of 53.1%, was recorded in 2021. In 2023, of the 212,900 people employed in Dolj, 43,700 worked in industry, 37,200 in agriculture, forestry and fishing, 36,600 in wholesale and retail trade, 18,100 in construction, 16,900 in health, 12,500 in education and 11,500 in transport and warehousing.
The County Employment Agency of Buzau, a county located in the south-east of Romania, informs that the unemployment rate in Buzău county on December 31, 2024 was 4.95%, a slight decrease compared to the end of 2023, when it was calculated at 5.47%. The highest share of the unemployed was registered in Nehoiu and Patarlagele, where an administrative reform for economic relaunc is necessary. On the other hand, the town of Buzău remained, instead, the main pole of economic development in the county in 2024, with a share of the unemployed in the stable population of 0.53%, the Agency states.
The unemployment rate in Satu Mare County, in northwestern Romania, was 5.14% at the end of last year, up slightly by 0.22 percentage points compared to the previous month, informs the County Employment Agency. Of the total unemployed registered at the end of December 2024, 6,588 people, 885 were unemployed with benefits. By residence, most unemployed people, 5,184, come from rural areas. The largest share of the unemployed is the 40-49 (1,811) age bracket, followed by those aged 30-39 (1,449). The unemployed without education and those with primary education are the most numerous, 55.80%. They are followed by those with a secondary education level, 29.54% and by those who graduated from vocational education, 6.54%.
