Therefore, nearly 144,000 employees in 36 companies situated in the top 100 employers represent 35 pct of the total number of the employees of the top 100 companies and it is expected that their number would grow in the next period.

„The number of employees in automotive in western part of the country would definitely increase if we had people to hire. There are requests of few hundred people we relocate to the west from the rest of the country. (...) The salaries offered are above minimum wage“, said Horia Bugarin, general manager of the recruiting company IHM Total Consult.

On the other hand, some HR managers in automotive worn that the lack of candidates changed the plans of some investors, who are redirecting their new investments to factories in zones with much lower labour costs such as Ukraine, Macedonia or Serbia. (source: zf.ro)