One in ten employees disappeared from official statistics last year, so that their total number reached the lowest level in six years.
Whereas there were 4.8 million employees in the economy in early last year, their number went down by 440,000 in 12 months, to 4.36 million, according to the Labour Ministry and National Statistics Institute data.
Part of them lost their jobs and fuelled the growth of the unemployment rate to a maximum of 8.3% this February, while others gave up their employment contracts and signed other contracts with their employers in a different capacity, such as sole traders, for which contributions paid are lower.
Most redundancies were operated by the private sector, given that the companies that could no longer pay their employees because of the decline in sales and lack of cash bore the burden of the crisis.
"We anticipate another 500,000 layoffs this year, but I think estimates will be exceeded again, because there are still very many problems in the private sector and no concrete steps," says Adrian Izvoranu, general manager of the Alliance of Employer Confederations in Romania (ACPR).
One in ten employees disappeared from official statistics last year, so that their total number reached the lowest level in six years.
Whereas there were 4.8 million employees in the economy in early last year, their number went down by 440,000 in 12 months, to 4.36 million, according to the Labour Ministry and National Statistics Institute data.
Part of them lost their jobs and fuelled the growth of the unemployment rate to a maximum of 8.3% this February, while others gave up their employment contracts and signed other contracts with their employers in a different capacity, such as sole traders, for which contributions paid are lower.
Most redundancies were operated by the private sector, given that the companie
