Permits Foundation, an international non-profit corporate initiative to promote access of accompanying spouses and partners of international staff to employment through an improvement of work permit regulations, says Romania will allow total freedom of labor force by 2014, at the latest.
"Arrangements have already been made in EU member states. By 2011, at the latest, the free movement of labor force will be extended to the first 25 EU countries, and this will be ap- plied to the new wave, Romania and Bulgaria, by 2014," according to a member of Permits Foundation's Board of Directors, Kathleen van der Wilk- Carlton, quoted by expatica.com.
The first country in which Permits Foundation succeeded in changing legislation regarding the right of spouses and partners of expatriates to be em- ployed in the relocation country was the U.S, followed by the Netherlands, France and Hong Kong. Moreover, in France and the Netherlands, all family members obtain work permits during the relocation period. So far 17 countries have passed legislation to grant work permits to spouses and partners of international staff. Major Permits Foundation partners include BMW, Bosh, ING, British Airways, KLM, Siemens, Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline, all of which sponsor and use the programs carried out by the foundation.
