Loading ...Romanian employers plan to hire more foreign workers than the Bucharest authorities intend to in 2008: Labour Minister proposed the issuing of 10,000 work permits for foreigners while employers say they need some 50,000.
“Though the Labour Minister says that 150,000 foreign workers would be needed in the construction field alone, a solution in this respect being labour force from China, Pakistan and India, we were surprised to learn that the number of work permits proposed by the same minister for 2008 is 10,000, inferior to that in 2007, of 12,000,” reads a release of the Romanian Employers’ Union Confederation (CNOPR).
According to the Labour Minister, the 10,000 wok permits for 2008 are justified by the fact that in 2007, despite statements by most employers to import labour force, not even half of the number of permits approved by the government have been used.
Though the governmental project includes the possibility to supplement the number of work permits for 2008 if needed, one of the CNPR leaders Roxana Prodan believes this should be done early this year. She also explained that not all work permits were used last year because hundreds of files were blocked from technical reasons. One of them was the setting up of the Romanian Office for Immigration that took over the activity of the Romanian Office for Labour Force Migration and “by the time things cleared up the year has passed. Moreover, the employers did not know very well the legal procedure for importing labor force…”
She told Gandul daily that a Israeli labour force intermediary company (Mecagenoshe) announced its intention to open an office in Bucharest in order to bring here Chinese workers for the Israeli construction companies in Romania.
“Working at Mecagenoshe are people who know the country very well as, starting 1993, they eased the legal immigration of Romanians in Israel for work. According to their estimations, wages in construction field in Romania will get very close, next year at the latest, to those in Israel, so they will follow their clients, the Israeli construction companies, and will bring them workers – Chinese and Romanians – whom they recruited the years before and who already gained experience on the Israeli construction sites,” the CNPR representative says.
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