Unionists say CNADNR should have enforced the new collective work contact signed on April 28, starting May 1, which means employees should have signed additional contracts stating certain bonuses would be included in their base salaries.
Union official Maria Mare said the additional contracts wouldn’t have changed the company’s wage fund, which has been the same since 2008, but each employee would have received an average extra 155 lei (EUR36) on their monthly salary, which so far was granted once or twice a year as bonuses.
She added half of the company’s employees make minimum wage, RON650.
An official of another union, Ramona Veleanu, said the roads authority refuses to apply the pay raise as of May 1 because unions have sued the company over its collective layoff procedures it started in March.
Unionists claim there is no real reason for layoffs and no staff audit to justify it. They say the company should have about 8,000 employees instead of the current 6,200.
CNADNR decided to lay off 622 of its employees and over 300 have received layoff notices.
Unionists say CNADNR employees manage 13,500 kilometers of national and European roads and all rehabilitation works are performed by private companies because these services have been outsourced. They said the company would have saved EUR3.5 million of the state budget if the company’s hadn’t outsourced these services.