The unemployment rate in Romania will rise by over three per cent in 2009, at 7.6%, from 4.4% a year earlier. Acording to the National Prognosis Commission (CNP) preliminary autumn forecast, the number of jobless persons will rise to 685,000 by the end of the year.   In 2010, CNP estimates that the unemployment rate will decrease to 6.2% and the number of jobless people will fall to 550,000.   CNP estimates that the average... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

The first forming seminar in Life&Corporate Coaching will take place in Bucharest, on March 7. The program will be held by Gerard O’Donovan, president of European Coaching Institute (ECI) and founder of Noble Manhattan.  The “Introduction to coaching” session is the opportunity to find out everything about Life and Corporate Coaching, either will probably be useful when a new business is starting or that is used as... [...]

A survey achieved by the statistic institute from Great Britain revealed the fact that 25% among the executive directors of the big companies receive bonuses without deserving them. These extra incomes gains are obtained even in the conditions in which the company’s profits in which they activate are only with one percentage over the inflation rate.  A survey of the center right analysts of Bow Group, revealed the fact that about... [...]

The massive investments which Cluj district drew up lately have determined with fulminate speed changes on the work force market. The investors and the recruitments agencies must adapt to the new reality. The Cluj town has, in present, the highest job offer in the country, here fallowing to record an explosion of staffing until the end of the year, estimated to 9.000 persons, according the representatives of the District Agency of... [...]

The year 2008 brings for many companies in Romania great personnel fluctuations or emphasized crisis of the work force, especially in areas as IT, FMCG, services, banking area, constructions and, not the last, in production. The personnel retention programs must also take into account the external factors, to action in time, and the solutions to be adapted to the situations happened on the labour market.     Lately is being... [...]

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... [...]

Romania’s employment agency ANOFM data shows that the country’s jobless rate rose to 8.36% in March, up from 8.3% a month earlier and well above a rate of 5.6% in the same period the previous year. The total number of unemployed persons reached 765,285. The number of jobless claims was 462,289 in March, down from 468,863 the month before. [...]

Official data show that Romanian unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points on the month to 8.3% in February, the highest rate since 2003. The country's employment agency ANOFM announced that the total number of unemployed people reached 762,375 in February.   Romanian jobless rate is expected to rise further in 2010, particularly in light of the government's planned cuts in the public sector to help lowering the budget deficit to... [...]

The unemployment rate in Romania rose for the 15th consecutive month in October to 7.1%, according to the National Employment Agency ANOFM. This is the highest jobless rate since April 2004, when the unemployment was at 7.4%.   The total number of unemployed people was at 653,939 at the end of October, from 625,140 a month earlier.   The rise in unemployment was due to layoffs in the latest period, as well as to a lack of vacant... [...]