Romania does not have any 30,000 employee company left, after the restructuring phases of last year. Posta Romana (Romanian Postal Company), the state-run compan,y with more than 28,000 employees is the largest employer in the economy, despite laying off 2,000 in the past year. The largest private sector employer is OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), with 19,000 employees (almost 1,500 fewer than in 2012).
Romanian businessman Zoltan Teszari’s RCS&RDS has made it among the top ten employers in the country in 2013, with more than 9,300 employees after having hired over 500 people. The company that hired most people in 2013, over 700, was do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman of Bacau brothers Adrian and Dragos Paval.
The data supplied by the Trade Registry show that the companies among the 20 biggest employers that resorted to layoffs shed more than 8,200 jobs in 2013, while those that hired, brought fewer than 3,500 people on board. Compared with 2008, however, the leading employers lost more than 16,000 employees.
The companies that have laid off most people in the last six years are Petrom (10,800), Posta Romana (6,700) and ArcelorMittal Galati (6,600).
On the other hand, Kaufland hired more than 5,000 people during the crisis, followed by Mega Image and Dedeman, more than 4,000 each since 2008.
Seven of the 20 largest employers, which are currently employing more than 220,000 people together or 5% of the total workforce of the country, are state-run companies or institutions, three are Romanian-held (Dedeman, RCS&RDS and Banca Transilvania) and the rest are foreign-held private companies. Industry does not have too many companies among the top 20 employers, only Automobile Dacia, Delphi, Sews and ArcelorMittal.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)