BUCHAREST (Thomson Financial) - A shipyard in Romania owned by South Korean
conglomerate Daewoo plans to employ about 300 workers from Asia before the end
of the year to overcome a labour shortage, the company said today.
"We have two reasons for taking on foreign citizens," the head of human
resources for the company, Gemal Memetcea, told Agence France-Presse.
"Firstly because of a lack of labour locally and after a number of qualified
workers emigrated in the last few years, and secondly because of the cost of
taking on Asians, which are 20 to 30 percent lower than Romanians."
He said 57 Vietnamese workers and 48 Chinese employees have already started
at the shipyard in Mangalia, on Romania's Black Sea coast.
Eleven more Vietnamese are expected next week and another 125 are in the
process of applying for visas and work permits.
The process of bringing 20 Sri Lankans to Romania has already begun and
another 50 are to come from Sri Lanka before the end of the year, he added.
The shipyard employs 3,600 people with the gross monthly salary on average
about 700 euros.
Romania -- an EU member state since January last year -- is suffering from a
serious shortage of workers for the construction and textile industries and
plans to turn to foreign labour to plug the gaps.
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