Almost 3,500 of them are unskilled workers, who came to Romania for jobs in building demolition or in breaking and cutting construction materials.
“About half of all those employees are unskilled. Our problem is that there is a shortage of labor across the board in the construction sector, from unskilled workers to project managers. Maybe some of those showing in these statistics have left since the start of the pandemic in Romania, but the numbers are not much different,” says Adriana Iftime, general manager of the construction company federation FPSC.
The number of work permits, 7,308, issued until September 13 is significantly higher than in the previous years, considering 2,000 such documents had been issued between January 1 – July 31 in 2019, for instance.
Most of the foreign employees come from India, Turkey, Republic of Moldova and Vietnam – more than 1,000 from each of these countries.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)