Employment shortage up to 100,000 workers

There are no precise estimates of the worker shortage, because all employers do not publish their vacancies. However, labor authorities say some 85,000-100,000 additional workers are needed in the Romanian economy.

However, only 24 financing human resource development applications were finalized, although 3,600 individuals and companies accessed the website for applications for the European Social Fund, Pacuraru told a human resource seminar.
The deadline for the applications is March 20.

“We do not know where they got stuck in the process of submitting their applications, as these are presently secret. We will only know after the deadline where they had difficulties and we will see what we can do about this,” Pacuraru added.