At least 21 companies among the top 300 by turnover havesubmitted and won projects worth a total of nearly 15 million eurosto train employees at a time when most employers have frozen theirtraining budgets out of a need to cut costs.
Big companies are thus an example of good practice as far as HRpolicies are concerned, being among the first in the private sectorto think of an alternative way to supplement the employee trainingbudgets.
Although none of the non-repayable EU funding obtained by companiesexceeds one million euros, a few thousand employees in Romania'sbiggest companies will, this year and the next, go "toschool".
Companies come up with nearly 40% of the money necessary to traintheir employees. The overall value of the non-repayable funding forprojects won by the 21 companies is 7.8 million euros, with thecompanies investing an overall 14.7 million euros in theiremployees.
The top 300 "champion" is Distrigaz Sud Reţele, specialising in gasdistribution, which managed to get nearly 715,000 euros' worth ofnon-repayable funds. The company intends to send 350 employees ontraining programmes, where they will be trained in communication,negotiation, customer relationship, and management.
Four big banks have won projects worth a total of 4.3 million eurosfor employee training, making banks some of the most "cautious"employers, who realised that internal HR budgets could not coveremployee training programmes.
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