Nica said Sunday talks with the IMF and EU officials that around 300 administrative and maintenance employees of postal company Posta Romana should be laid off.
Posta Romana, Romania’s largest provider of postal services, is currently undergoing an ample restructuring plan that targets massive layoffs and privatization.
In April, the ministry cancelled an auction to select a legal adviser for the postal company’s privatization, citing faulty procedures, and former communications minister Razvan Mustea said the privatization of would be completed at the end of the year or in the first months of 2013, instead of June 2012 as previously agreed with the International Monetary Fund.
Nica was previously communications minister between 2000 and 2004, and served as interior minister between 2008 and 2009.
Parliament committees are hearing minister nominees Monday morning and the Parliament is expected to hold a plenary meeting later in the day for a confidence vote on the new Cabinet. The committees’ endorsement of proposed ministers is consultative.