Top 50 employers made 10% of personnel redundant
The top 50 employers in the private sector, which had over
275,000 employees at the end of 2008, have made 11% of their
overall staff redundant, i.e. 30,000 employees.
This is the first conclusion that emerges from the centralisation
of questionnaires sent by ZF to the companies for the fifth edition
of Romania's Business Yearbook "Biggest Players in the Economy,"
which will be published at the end of June.
Ten of the 50 biggest private employers in the economy have let go
of a quarter of the employees they had in 2008, with the most
redundancies being made in the energy, industry, and constructions
sectors, according to data centralised by ZF, and supplied by the
companies.
The top ten private companies in terms of number of employees laid
off 23,000 out of a total of 93,000 employees part of the
companies' organisational chart at the end of 2008.
"The construction sector was the most affected last year, and
followed the same trend as in 2010. In the energy sector, the
volume of employees has fallen significantly, but the percentage is
not the highest, because this sector has always had a large number
of employees. There was a rebound in the industry sector, as of the
second half of 2009, with many companies resorting to temporary
work agencies in order to get the necessary flexibility," says
Florin Godean, national sales manager within recruitment firm
Adecco Romania, one of the biggest players on the market, with 19.5
million euros in turnover last year.