Nokia and Dacia rent 4,000 employees to cope with exports
Nokia and Dacia companies, which generate more than 10% of
Romania's exports, have nearly 4,000 temporary employees, with the
two companies at the same time being the biggest employers to use
the benefits of temporary workforce.
The two companies together have over 20,000 employees, with high
export demand prompting them to resort to renting employees, a much
more flexible method of hiring.
"Companies use temporary employees to reduce costs. For instance,
if a company wants to employ 100, it needs to handle recruitment on
its own, and do it fast. If it resorts to a company that finds
temporary employees, it promptly gets candidates who have already
been assessed, in addition to the fact that they no longer have to
go through the recruitment and the salary process, which are also
handled by the former," says Florin Godean, sales manager of Adecco
Romania group.
Temporary work contracts are brokered by companies such as Adecco
and Lugera. Temporary employment makes it very easy for employers
to let such employees go if production declines, as they do not
have to negotiate severance pay or the restructuring process with
trade unions.
In fact, making temporary work legislation more flexible has been
one of the leading proposals made by foreign investors for
modifying the Labour Code.
Romania is close to the bottom of the European ranking in terms of
the share of temporary workers in the overall number of salaried
employees, currently accounting for 0.5% out of a total of 4.2
million employees. In countries like the UK and France, temporary
employees account for as much as 4.5% of the overall number.