According to the plant’s manager, Tiberiu Borca, the Mintia thermal power plant within Electrocentrale Deva is undergoing a restructuring process aimed at making it more efficient.
Borca said layoffs will consider employee performance evaluations and the management is looking at people close to retirement age and those who have previously expressed intentions of leaving the plant.
He said the 300 employees to leave the plan this year and the next will receive severance payments and unemployment benefits.
Romania’s Government on Wednesday decided the start of procedures to lay off 1,300 employees of several state-owned energy companies this year, and laid off workers will get severance pay and unemployment aid until 2014.
According to the list approved by the government, the coal mining company CNH will lay off 900 employees, thermal power producer Termoelectrica will lay off 300 people and Electrocentrale Deva will shed 100 employees.
Severance payment will be calculated depending on seniority. The government estimates to spend 25 million lei (about EUR6 million) on severance and unemployment benefits for these employees.