The top 50 employers in the private sector, which had over 275,000 employees at the end of 2008, have made 11% of their overall staff redundant, i.e. 30,000 employees.

This is the first conclusion that emerges from the centralisation of questionnaires sent by ZF to the companies for the fifth edition of Romania's Business Yearbook "Biggest Players in the Economy," which will be published at the end of June.

Ten of the 50 biggest private employers in the economy have let go of a quarter of the employees they had in 2008, with the most redundancies being made in the energy, industry, and constructions sectors, according to data centralised by ZF, and supplied by the companies.

The top ten private companies in terms of number of employees laid off 23,000 out of a total of 93,000 employees part of the companies' organisational chart at the end of 2008.

"The construction sector was the most affected last year, and followed the same trend as in 2010. In the energy sector, the volume of employees has fallen significantly, but the percentage is not the highest, because this sector has always had a large number of employees. There was a rebound in the industry sector, as of the second half of 2009, with many companies resorting to temporary work agencies in order to get the necessary flexibility," says Florin Godean, national sales manager within recruitment firm Adecco Romania, one of the biggest players on the market, with 19.5 million euros in turnover last year.

The top 50 employers in the private sector, which had over 275,000 employees at the end of 2008, have made 11% of their overall staff redundant, i.e. 30,000 employees.

This is the first conclusion that emerges from the centralisation of questionnaires sent by ZF to the companies for the fifth edition of Romania's Business Yearbook "Biggest Players in the Economy," which wil