Retailers, security companies, temporary employment agencies, banks, hospitals, telecoms and social security departments and railway maintenance departments have the highest number of employees. The data centralized by ZF show that 300 of the largest employers in the economy have shed about 20,000 jobs since the beginning of the year, and very few companies, especially temporary employment agencies continued to hire. What is the analysts’ answer to the question “What do companies need to keep hiring?”
“Actually, the problem here is that companies try to keep their employees and resort to temporary workers for lack of medium and long-term visibility. As soon as unions announce they want the Labor Code modified again and employee evaluation and layoffs will no longer be performance-based, while foreign investments are really low, one can no longer talk about increasing the number of employees in these companies,” says Cristina Savuica, managing partner of recruitment firm Lugera&Makler, which posted more than EUR40 million in revenue last year.
Most layoffs were operated by bankrupt Mic.ro Retail (3,101), as well as by Delphi Packard (1,290), Carrefour (955), Petrom (811), Radet (586). The companies that hired most people were Adecco (2,251), Hidroconstructia (1,211), Manpower (896), Dedeman (846), and RCS (842). Some of those that hired most people were temporary work agencies.
The top 300 employers have more than 760,000 employees together, that is 17% of the total in the economy.
Banks and retailers are the private sector employers that have laid off most employees since the beginning of the year, either because of the need to cut costs or because they closed branches or stores. Whereas BCR and BRD, the top two local banks closed several branches to cut costs and fired almost 900 people, Real and Carrefour hypermarket chains decided to close some of their stores (Real Timisoara in March and Carrefour Arad in August), laying off 600 together.
The companies that hired permanent employees because of business expansion include do-it-yourself retailer Dedeman owned by the Paval brothers of Bacau (846), telecom RCS&RDS controlled by businessman Zoltan Teszari (702), supermarket chain Mega Image (678) and automotive component maker Fujikura Automotive (571).