By The European Times | Created at 2025-01-08 16:09:45 | Updated at 2025-01-09 08:20:49
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Over the past four years, the country has allowed access to its labor market for 350,000 people from non-EU countries. At the end of 2024, records show that 150,000 of them remained
100,000 people from non-EU countries are granted the right to work in Romania every year, but a large part of them do not stay in the country permanently, Digi 24 TV reported, quoted by BTA.
In 2025, Romania will again issue work permits to 100,000 foreign workers in search of a solution to the labor market crisis. The same number were hired last year, but about 65,000 of them have left, the TV noted.
Over the past four years, Romania has allowed access to its labor market for 350,000 workers from non-EU countries. At the end of 2024, records show that 150,000 of them remain.
Ana Calugaru, a representative of a recruitment platform, told Digi24 that many Asian job seekers see Romania only as a transit point to other countries in Western Europe. According to Calugaru, another explanation for this situation is the failed integration of the labor market.
The main areas of activity of foreign workers in Romania are hospitality and deliveries, Digi24 points out.
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