Number of employees grows 100,000 in 2012

April 2013 - From the Print Edition

Romania's number of employees increased by nearly 100,000 last year, reaching 4.31 million people, according to Ziarul Financiar. However, the creation of another 522,000 jobs is necessary for the workforce to reach the 4.83 million employees at which it stood five years ago, before the financial crisis.
Experts warned that the figure may create a false impression. "In the statistics, each new employment contract is considered a new job, but things are a bit different in reality," said Cristina Savuica, managing partner for the Czech Republic and Romania at recruitment company Lugera. "In the last year, most employers have chosen to set fixed-term contracts at three months, then extend them by another three months. As a result the statistics show two new employees instead of one. So, it is possible that out of the 100,000 new employees that appear in the statistics, the actual number of new jobs created is 20,000."
In 2012, employment grew in the administrative service activities and support service activities fields (26,700 newly created jobs), followed by construction (26,200), industry (16,300) and hotels and restaurants (10,200), according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS), quoted by ZF.