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E-bureaucracy: 4 Million Employees Fed Manually Into Two DatabasesPublished at: 2011-09-26Data on the wages and types of employment contracts of over 4.2 million Romanian employees will have to be introduced in a new electronic register by the end of October, according to a Government decision that came into force in August. MoreThis is the second major change affecting employees this year, after the scrapping of employment record books as of January 1st. HR staff will have to feed the data about each employee manually once again into a new electronic system, because they cannot import data from the first electronic register. It is as if someone with 500 contacts in their phone agenda would have to feed them manually into their new phone.
"Recently, the IT system has been revised, and the new version of the 'Revisal' (Revisal 5.0.6. i.e.) is an updated one. The employers have a new application available, in which they have to input data on each employee by the end of October, irrespective of whether they are working based on an existing employment contract or if they have just been hired," says Eugen Tifin, spokesman within the Work Inspection Department.
Companies have five more weeks to go to work inspection department offices, ask for a password allowing them access to the electronic system in which they will introduce data on the wages, perks and professional experience of all employees.
The refusal to make the electronic register (and the employees' personal records) available to the work inspector, as well as the failure to send the register within 90 days from the enforcement of the Government decision is subject to fines of between 5,000 lei and RON8,000 (EUR1,200 - 1,900).
"Employers have a new electronic system available and they have to feed employee data into the new version or else be penalized. It will all be sent by e-mail, except the password that the company needs to get from their respective Work Inspectorate office in order to access the system," Tifin added.
Source: ZFenglish.com |
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Hourly cost of labor force grows by 4.2% in Romania in second quarterPublished at: 2011-09-02The labor force has become more expensive in Romania, a country which was once the target of companies looking for cheap workforce. At least this is what statistics show. The hourly cost of the labor force in the country went up by 4.2 percent in the second quarter of the year, compared to the first. This was triggered by salary increases in production and energy supply, mining industry, water distribution and in sanitation, according to data issued by the country’s Statistics Institute. MoreThe increase in salaries was of 4.17 percent quarter-on-quarter, while the increase in other benefits, non-salary, was of 4.32 percent. The statistics do not give the actual hourly cost of the labor force in Romania, which depends on industry.
The average monthly salary in Romania was of RON 1,407 in 2010 (the equivalent of EUR 334). |