Romania imports 100,000 new foreign workers by 2025 to cope with labor shortage

04/01/2025

The government has decided that another 100,000 workers from countries such as the Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka will be able to come to our country in 2025. In recent years, Romania has become a second home for hundreds of thousands of people from other continents.

The national labor crisis is a reality, even the Ministry of Labor admits it. Because our country is facing a major shortage, 100,000 new foreign workers will be admitted to the Romanian labor market in 2025. A solution also adopted in previous years.

Our country has half a million job vacancies. For some of them, people from countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka, India and the Philippines come from thousands of kilometers away.

They're like a little family here, they say so themselves, and they have only one goal: to ensure a better future for those at home.

"We can earn double or even triple what we earn in the Philippines," says one woman.

After 2015, the demand for foreign workers started to grow and is increasing year by year.

More than 99,000 avize employment by the end of November. Nearly 6000 applications were pending. That's similar to 2023 and 2022, but double that of avizthey released in 2021.

Fromand not all of them stayed in our country, Romania has about 150,000 foreign workersni. Deja agențiile de recrutare lucrea to the applications for this year.

"We are working massively on recruiting 3000 truck drivers in the Philippines, we have an order for 500 caregivers for the elderly and disabled," says Yosef Gavriel Peisakh, general manager of the recruitment agency.

The process for bringing in a foreign worker is a rather difficult one and takes between 6 and 8 months.

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