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Labour minister Violeta Alexandru said there is not enough money in the state budget to double child allowances as of August 1, as the law stipulates. So, the ministry proposes a gradual increase by 2022, by around 20pc every stage. The…

36 Sri Lankan citizens who had been fired from a clothing factory in Botosani, northeastern Romania, have been brought on the Otopeni airport in Bucharest last night after having been told they were to be repatriated. However, upon arriving…

Roughly 200,000 work contracts are currently suspended, as many companies in Romania have halted their activity, said Labour minister Violets Alexandru. She added the number might double. The minister told Digi24 that the Government has the…

The law on the public pension system, re-examined after the Constitutional Court ruled it is unconstitutional, has been rejected by the Senate on Wednesday, after failing to get the needed votes. 67 senators voted in favour and 22…

Hundreds of trade unionists have staged protests on Tuesday, in front of the Government building. The unionists come from Dacia, Ford plants, from the chemical and navel industries and request the amendment of the labour legislation in…

The Nestle Timisoara employees will stage a protest on Friday, in front of the company’s central offices in Bucharest, if they do not receive the requested compensatory packages, some of them threatening to go on hunger strike, a release…

Around 90,000 children in Romania have both parents left to work abroad, Labour minister Marius Budai told a press conference on Wednesday. The minister claimed that authorities are trying to develop projects, to create jobs in order to…

President Klaus Iohannis has sent a letter to Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă on Thursday announcing the rejection of the appointment of Lia Olguta Vasilescu as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Public…

The emergency ordinance introducing new taxes will be discussed in an extraordinary Government sitting on Friday, until then the text is subject to amendments by the Finance Ministry, digi24.ro reports. Initially, sources said the ordinance…

PSD chairman Liviu Dragnea has mentioned an investment fund of EUR 10 billion within the party’s Executive Committee held on Monday. The statement comes amid the information that the Government has decided to supplement the budget of the…