Under 150,000 non-EU workers currently in Romania, another 100,000 can come in 2025
<p>Under 150,000 non-EU workers are currently in Romania, helping the country deal with an acute labor shortage that has been ongoing for years. The government is also set to approve a quota of 100,000 foreign workers in 2025. </p>
<p>According to data provided by the Labor Inspection, the number of active individual employment contracts held by employees who are citizens of non-European Union states was 146,387 as of December 12, 2024.</p>
<p>The number of new individual employment contracts signed by employees who are citizens of non-European Union states between January 1, 2024, and December 12, 2024, was 94,155. By comparison, the number of new individual employment contracts signed by employees who are citizens of non-European Union states in 2023 was 97,502, in 2022 was 93,780, and in 2021 was 52,575, according to <a href="https://adevarul.ro/economie/oficial-mai-putin-de-150000-de-muncitori-straini-2412859.html">Adevarul</a>.</p>
<p>According to a new proposal, another 100,000 foreign workers from outside the EU can arrive in Romania with employment contracts in 2025. In total, they would represent approximately 1.25% of the number of employed persons in the second quarter of 2024, which, according to data published by the National Institute of Statistics, was 7,996,000 people. </p>
<p>The Ministry of Labor argues that the Romanian authorities' objectives regarding migration are to maximize the benefits and limit/eliminate potential negative effects by promoting legal labor migration, thereby generating a positive impact on Romania's socio-economic climate, immigrants, and their countries of origin.</p>
<p>The fields with the most vacancies are residential and non-residential building construction (47,716), postal and courier activities (29,293), restaurants (21,457), temporary staffing activities (19,889), security (12,367), road freight transport (9,091), among others.</p>
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