The new Labor Code led to thesealing of nearly 200,000 new employment contracts in two weeks'time, says the Romanian Prime Minister. It is not known whatcompanies hired or how many contracts were ended during thisperiod.
"We are nearing 200,000 newemployment contracts (...) This is another sign that the economy isout of recession and going in the right direction," is the messagethat Premier Emil Boc keeps trying to hammer home since he becamean interim Labor Minister.
Labor Inspection authorityannounced earlier this week that between May 2 and May 15 (i.e. inless than two weeks' time since the new Labor Code becameeffective, 177,746 new employment contracts were registerednationwide.
Ziarul Financiar askedrepresentatives of the Labor Inspection authority, the LaborMinistry and the Government for ten examples of companies that havesealed new employment contracts in the period mentioned by PremierBoc. Representatives of these institutions had not provided anofficial answer by edition close.
"It is not possible to seal200,000 new employment contracts in less than a month's time. Someare contracts that are being renewed because the companies operatedsalary cuts and had to come up with new contracts (...). Of course,it is possible for the number of contracts to have increased in theconstruction sector because the season has started, but not by200,000 because companies did not wait for the Labor Code to starthiring," said Mariana Câmpeanu, economist and statistician, who wasLabor Minister in the Tăriceanu Cabinet.
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