Romania tries to lure back workers in Italy, holds job fair in Rome

The event is managed by Romania’s Ministry of Labor. The job fair will be attended by Romanian officials with the agriculture and liberal professions ministries.

Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said some 7,500 jobs will be available at the event. A similar movement should take place in Spain if the event in Rome will be successful.

Some 17,000 Romanian workers are active in the constructions industry, in Italy’s Lazio-Rome area.

At the end of 2007, Romanian Labor Minister Paul Pacuraru met in Brussels with Italian counterpart Cesare Damiano within a meeting on the lack of labor force in Romania and the abundance of Romanian workers in Italy.

The two officials agreed to draft a plan which would determine Romanian workers in Italy to return home. One of the options would be for Italian companies in Romania to hire Romanian workers from Italy, Damiano said.

The two officials declined to mention other measures yet Damiano talked about the possible usage of the European Social Fund and investing in the training of workers who would return in Romania.

Source: NewsIn