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- Romania desperately needs skilled workers, whether in the service sector, construction or care industry. Since Romania joined the EU in 2007, hundreds of thousands have left the country. Businesses are looking to Asia to fill the gap.
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As a Romanian, I can answer the question very easily. The owners of these hotels pay next to nothing, that's why they can't attract Romanian workers. Because the workers are not treated fairly, they get cheated with money, underpaid, and overworked, while the owner practices higher rates for rooms and food than in Spain or France. This is nothing new, the owners were exploiting employees in this industry for tens of years, the only difference is that the Romanian employees finally woke up and saw that there are better opportunities for them than being slaves to a hotel owner in Constanta.
You mean, Romanians 'suck the blood' of others? Da? "You luff to Count"!
Same story in Bulgaria. I worked some time ago in such a place, the owners make millions, they give nothing to the workers. The solution is unions. Powerful and unforgiving.
And just 2 million Romanians earn the minimum wage!!! Not to mention that many write the minimum wage on the contract and receive more in hand to avoid paying extra taxes.
By the way, the minimum wage is 3,000 lei, roughly double what you said! And you forgot to tell the people that 96% of Romania's population already own a home or some land, so the rent isn't a big issue as it is in other countries!
Stay in school and educate yourself. It's your fault if you accept wages that only a village fool would!
That's the same everywhere, it's the degeneration of capitalism.
Exactly. 100 % They are degrading us, threating us as non-human and complain. It is enough. More than enough.
"I don't know what would convince a Romanian worker in France to come back."
More money.
I know right. The answer is so blatantly obvious.
It's all about money
i know ppl from france who moved to cluj and think it s better lol. prices in western europe are x3 higher (excluding low q food from supermarket). salaries are not always 3x higher. i know a lot of ppl making 2-3 k euros in Ro with low education jobs in RO. some of them like electricians of other tehnical jobs can make 4-5k per month and in RO u can live very good with 2k euros per m. to live that way u need 6k in western countries. romanians are living the worst live posible in west to save money and then whey come back and spend a lot in RO to flex. when they are working in RO they also spend a lot of money and compare the savings without comparing the quality of living.
a lot of people actually would not come back for higher money because they left also because they had enough of so many backwards people that plague some areas. Not talking about hard working people in rural communities but about people more akin to bible thumpers and the remaining going on and on about how much better was life under communism and striving to bring those times back (they still got 40 or so more years left in them).
Transylvania Hungarian land treaty of trianon expired its time to give back ethnic lands "Vlachs"
I'm really happy that Romanians are stepping up and saying no to underpaid jobs. Romania is a part of the Eu, with a cost of living similar to Western countries. As of that, Romanians should ask for a payment that allows living", not just existing.
correct
Preach 🙏
actually given the cost of living u can save more working in Ro than working same job in spain or italy or portugal and so on. the problem is that ppl are spending a lot more in RO to flex. when they go abroad they are living 5 ppl in a 1 room flat to save money and then compare the savings but it s not the same situation.
CORRECT
Cost of living is higher in Romania than in Western countries fyi
As a Romanian, I feel sick to see these business owners saying that Romanians don't want to work for them and see that they bring foreigners on a low salary and take advantage of them. It breaks my heart and angers me so much to hear that as a foreigner, he is forced to stay with so many other people in the same room. If I were in their place, I would use Romania as a bridge to get something better, never settle for less, guys!
Romanians have also shared rooms with lots of others when working abroad and they still do. Somehow that is very badly seen in Romania and they are made fun of and beeing called « capsunari » etc. I think that we wouldn’t have gotten in this situation if would have been kinder to each other. Plenty romanians, including myself, have left not because of a bad financial situation but because of the judgmental character of people. But we seem to have completely forgotten about the dramas of romanian families that were pulled apart, now we only feel sorry about the foreigners that go through the same. But I guess we deserve our faith as romanians (loosing all those millions of citizens and in the close future the work market will be saturated with the foreigners to a point where it will become unbearable, mark my words; it is what has happened in the west, now the French for exemple are beeing forced to move to the countryside just so that they have some peace and quiet cause foreigners bring pollution of all kinds with them),
that’s what happens when « it’s every man for himself » thinking becomes the motto of a nation. We have never been able to appreciate one another and our culture, yet we appreciate other people’s cultures, food etc.
Is a BIG difference between "not wanting to work" to "being a wage slave"
@@amecmn9990 the main thing as to why it's happening is welfare. In the west, there's a strong welfare system that lower class people can exploit. That's why they stick around. Besides, most of those workers do not plan to live in Romania. Why do that when you can have western civilization and all of its benefits one 2-3 hour flight away ?
Asta este consecință păcatelor noastre să ne întoarcem la Dumnezeu să ne ierte păcatele, nimic nu se întâmplă fără voia lui Dumnezeu poporul român a făcut păcate grele urăște păcatele noastre
@@stefanalexandrucojocaru1789 Dumnezeu iubeste Romania si o va proteja impotriva celor care vor intenta la suveranitatea ei, traditia si cultura ei. Pacatul nostru este lenea. Ne este lene sa ne educam si sa actionam. De aceea noi functionam doar sub conducatori mai fermi care stiu sa ne organizeze. Noi nu stim ce sa facem cu libertatea.
We have same problem in Lithuania - no one wants to do summer job for 800€ when they can earn 3000€ in Denmark. Also we see employers driving Porsche and their daughters Range Rovers. Work for 800€? Thanks, no!
bravo! Let them work. Next year in Romania is election year we are voting the AUR party to stop this nonsense immigration. The pay has to be fair, and it's true about the porsches, high end bmw and mercedes.
@@WARGODS-ez1bu no-one with a brain is voting AUR mate, stop that nonsense. if AUR ever gets into a government position, all of their political program will change, just like the british did post-brexit. "stop the immigration? of course we cannot do that. you want people to starve? we actually need more immigration". And then you'd have more immigration, and on top of that absolutely retarded people in power. So yeah, AUR..
@WARGODS-ez1bu who's we I aint voting for AUR
800 quid after rent is a decent amount of money.
@@vladimirobloja7674I am, they are number 2 in the polls. I can't wait for election day to see the cope from USR voters
Can't believe I would ever see the day when Romania needs more workers.
It's not that surprising given that Romania, like many other European countries, suffers from population decline and after the fall of communism many people emigrated abroad.
Low wages?
most romanians work abroad
@@user-ph4wi4sy2pNot "most Romanians", check the data!!!
@@Rasytojas1980Most of those working abroad are uneducated and can barely speak their own language correctly. They are cheap, unqualified labour force.
those seaside hotel owners are notoriously underpay their employees and make them work long hours. nobody in his right mind would want to work for them
in sound mind. In Panama it already happens Panama Colombia Costa Rica has people who are not in their right mind
" Nobody in his right mind would want to work for them "
Sri Lankans , Indians , Pakistanis , Bengals , Nepalis, Afghans and Burmese people : Are you sure about that ? I will work for 400 € per month or less
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In my hometown, Tulcea there is a shipyard where they are moaninng romaninans don't want to work on 400 - 500 euros wage but they bring vietnamese on 1500euro monthly wage . If they pay romanians these wages they won't emigrate to Norway for 3000 euro wage. Hypocrisy of bussiness owners.
Bravo și pt 1000 crede ma ca 1000 tu 1000 ea nu ar mai pleca lumea
There is no labor shortage anywhere. There is a shortage of decent business owners that got this wild idea of capitalism and greed grandfathered in there heads. Look at the wealth gap not in the rich and poor, but the ladder of earned wages from top to bottom. It's astounding..
In Romania, a psychological test for future business owners to test their views about employees should be mandatory because you have many “landlords” like the one in this video that is seeing human lives like pawns.
Go and work in Germany and see what a "landlord" means.
"Oh no, what can I do, the workers are leaving and I simply don't know why!" Have you tried paying your employees a higher salary?
Well they may be prepared for mobilization
As a romanian, I'm surprised that a german news channel translates romanian to english to make a video.
The world is truly borderless.
It's also available in german.😅
@@RsOnTheStreetS true, didn't know that.
Hi there can you tell me any site for seeking a job in Romani .
Hj788
And they do that so they can try to convince you that replacing a native European population with Africans and West Asians is actually a good thing.
The world is truly gay
Romaina needs more workers because thier 'workers' left for better lives and jobs in other countries. Maybe that countiry should take better care of thier people who earn unlivable wages right now and have for years...I visited some friends there a few years ago, students living in a 1 bedroom apartment, five of them , each had under 400 euros to live off of each month and they all worked.. The people that 'run' that country live in mansions while allowing the majority to live in poverty...OF COURSE THEY LEAVE!
Left for a better life? They officially invested over 65 billion back in Romania in the last years, according to the bank transactions. Not to mention the cash brought in when flying or driving back to Romania, estimated to a roughly 5 billion per year.
Most of those who left are an unqualified workforce, without higher education, and the overwhelming majority of them still love Romania and dream of returning back to their country and relatives one day. That's why they built houses and started businesses with the money earned abroad.
Most Romanians working abroad are facing racism and are working long working hours, breaking their backs for the money. Many of them share their home with other people to cut the costs and save money. No one abroad sits in a villa and drinks a cocktail if you are not already very rich or have higher education.
Parts of romanians abroad sit in City Centers or in Front of supermarkets and beg for Money in Western Europe.
Looks Like this makes more Money than working in romania
@@RGFWZ Those are not the native Romanians, those are the gypsies, one of Romania's ethic minorities!
The gypsies are nomads who migrated from the northern region of India and settled across Europe, they represent roughly 3% of Romania's population.
No true Romanian would ever do what they are doing, the gypsies have a different mindset than the Romanians, different traditions, different lifestyle, different language, different goals, different origin, etc.
@@omi685 They will return to Romania because most Romanians can't integrate in different countries or cultures.
@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 They are returning because they have family and friends back home, because it's safer, because the food is tastier, because no matter what it's still their country.
Low birth rates, massive emmigration and the economic boom of Romania in the last 10 years means it has a huge labor shortage.
It doesn't help that business owners are unwilling to pay more but it reached a point where it's hard to find people even when it pays more.
If it's booming you can pay more than western countries right? Then you can attract even swiss construction workers. It's simple, pay huge money => get more workers
@@cypher221 Because apparently they find it hard to do even that
@@HyuLiliumif it's booming, it means it WILL be as rich as western eu , it doesn't mean we are yet, oldo we are about to in the next 10 years
Arabs would fertilize your women.
The birth rates aren’t low, they are actually pretty high. Everyone around me is having at least 2 kids, issue is more Romanians are leaving and dying of old age, so the population cannot be replaced natively. We have brought this issue upon ourselves, it’s time to welcome foreigners into this country just as others have welcomed us into theirs
there no labor shortage in Romania, there's an acute living wage shortage here.
paying 500 euros when the minumum rent is probably 3-350€ is not desirable, you'll be eating scraps using the small amount left after paying your bills.
the hotel owner in this video is already complaining and finding reasons why immigrants are already bad, not prepared and probably planning in his head how reduce the amount paid or extend their work hours, absolutely gutted by his attitude.
NO NO, don´t bring foreign workers unless they are other Pure Europeans. That is how it started in France "we need more workers, France is growing". NO NO. Only from your own culture: other Pure Europeans, like Polish, Hungarians, Greek, etc etc. I am from Argentina, and we have followed the same policies and we are an example of a United country with One culture.
Francia Colombia venezuela
Argentina is already suffering from high inflation and at the brink of collapse.
You are the example of a failed contury for corruption and street crime nothing more , zero advanced industry,zero technology research. You can barely service an european car at the mechanic shop......not to make,only to repair.
Poor guy has three hotels and nobody to do his work for him. Isn't that so sad?
i almost have tears in my eyes
😂😢
I feel like every employer that hires someone through the work program should have to pay a tax to cover the cost of bringing in unskilled labor.
I think its desperation for workers that they have made easy to bring people in. Once the demands are met I am sure the rules will tighten. best example is the oil rich middle east - its not easy getting there now as before. Because they have enough foreign labor now they are not interested anymore.
The cost is having the unskilled and having to train them
@@geminix365
That's why wages in IT and engineering are always high since training unskilled workers to do complex high skilled jobs is impossible in short period so companies have no option but to pay high salaries with better work conditions but jobs that require few days of training and low skills like restaurants and retail and .... can always get cheap labor
At the beginning business owners don't want to rise the salaries so local workers won't leave but later they will have to do it if they want to exist.
500 euro in month? :(
sad
This is clearly a case of underpaying and undervaluing labor.
It doesn't make sense to compare french job opportunities to romanian ones, as many people would rather stay home if they had a decent pay. Sure, there are some people who just want to work in another country, almost regardless of pay, and there are also people who will move to anywhere if they can get a few pennies more, but a lot of people would rather stay home, even if higher paying jobs are available elsewhere. The Sri Lankan guy is a perfect example of that, he's only out there because his country is struggling hard.
There is no labor shortage just that it's hard to find people to work 6 days a week and extra hours for a bargrain salary and no vacation. Even people aged past 40 and even 50 are going to work in western countries where they find it more convenient. Nepalese and Sri Lankans are having little options at home so that's why they coming.
The biggest mistake of this news article was not disabling the comment section.
As a Romanian I do hope the foreign workers do not settle for less or equal as us and move on for a better future. These hotel owners, restaurant owners, construction work higher-ups, factory higher-ups, bosses of any kind of manual work are willing to fire and replace people on a whim
Hello ,I am an African teacher,is it possible for me to get a job in Romania??
You don't want these jobs. It is not better than in Africa.
That's literally what Western Europeans do also. The youth there doesn't want to do those jobs hence they import immigrants. This is how capitalism works
@@metodiusm428Romania isn't in western Europe.
@@jamesoakley4570 I didn't claim that, but Western Europeans also use immigrants for low-skilled jobs
I don't understand govts thinking immigration is the solution. In South Africa, it's the same, but our unemployment rate is very high and instead of gov funding South African students for higher education qualifications for example, they want to hire lecturers from other countries. Makes no sense. Invest in your citizens before looking OUTSIDE.
The reality is that people are getting paid better elsewhere and these hotel owners want to pay slave wages. If they increased their pay a bit more, they would get lots of people willing to work.
As romanian I cant have anything but sympathy for sri lankan and asian workers. Not so long in the past my dad had to leave for western EU to provide me with all I needed to access higher education and get a well paid job. Years of sacrifice for an entire generation. Romanians, poles & many more - Bastiat said it best for us.
As for all asian workers - you will always be greeted here by me and many others. We have some bad apples too, as you may have noticed. Nevertheless, please dont let that stop you. Also, as many others have said - take care, a lot of business owners are predatory in nature. Our state corruption & nepotism forged them like this. Know your worth, dont let them fool you. Its not worth it. Try to come only on positive feedback from your countrymen. Stay safe ❤
Soon enough instead of Romania it will become Gypsyromania, where are you Zamolxes, Decebal, Burebista, Vlad Tepes, Mihai Viteazul, Stefan Cel Mare, and the last truly leader Ceausescu, they all got murdered by betrayed from the "boierii" for just nothing but to destroy a nation of DACIA! Sad man.....very sad!
Communism forged them like this. At least they have an excuse.
Eastern Europeans do not like non-Europeans in general. The level of xenophobia in slavic countries is huge.
So you being considerate and kind to them is different from the norm.
@@asmirann3636 Romania is not slavic and not xenophobic and traditionally was an imigration country, an melting pot. Only the communist period changed this situation. And historically this imigration was from Southern Europe and Middle East. Romanians are very hospitable in their nature as long as the newcomers respect the country's habits and want to integrate into the Romanian way of life.
@@andreiaiosif2534 keep lying to yourself, i have seen romanian calling monkey to immigrants. It's just a melting pot of immigrant poor labours.
Instead of paying the romanians more, so they don’t leave abroad for a better life, they bring people from much poorer countries to pay them even less. Life in Romania is not good, people are poor, those who are abroad will never return to this country only to be humiliated by the minimum wage in this country!
Dude, minimum wage is for unskilled work. If you want to earn more get a University degree or any degree in something, learn 2 or 3 languages, gather experience in the field you got the degree, change a few companies and after a while you will eventually get to earn more money. Just sitting, doing nothing and complaining won't make money fall out from the sky.
@ionutunroman7525 You should still be able to afford to live.
Even if you work as a cashier in a supermarket in Romania, you can still afford to rent your own place, which isn't that possible in most of the western countries.
Those leaving should've stayed in school and educated themselves, not abandon school and end up as an unqualified workforce abroad. Most of those who left are working on construction sites, elderly care homes, farms, and so on.
@@ionutunroman7525you can't get hired anywhere with a college degree. The officials officially botched competency
@@mcr2356 Well that depends on what affording to live means to each individual. For sure, you won't be able to afford to live in big cities(not the outskirts), buy clothes from known brands, go on vacations or own a new car with minimum wage in most countries of this world. That is what the middle class can afford and the middle class doesn't earn minimum salary.
If i understood correctly, Romanians cannot live on the meagre incomes they get offered. And the solution is to find workforce from foreign countries with less expectations. To me this is a modern type of slavery. The EU should not be surprized if that business model will take over wherever profits could be made. This is terrible! 19th century capitalism!
Roughly 96% of Romania's population already own a property or land, the average Romanian doesn't pay rent! But even if someone has to pay rent, you can easily rent your OWN apartment with €250 per month.
Most of those leaving are uneducated and unsatisfied with the minimum wage.
The Romanians also like showing off,they like big houses, nice cars, eating good, spending holidays abroad, etc. Of course that those individuals are unhappy since they are a cheap labour force and cannot live as others! So they prefer to work as toilet scrubbers and farmers abroad, then invest back in Romania in order to return some day.
The immigrants in my country are payed 2-5 times higher than Romanian people. They got free accomodation, 3 meals a day, free transport to work and once a year return ticket to go to see their families. Romanian people doesn't got these benefits. They got about 500€ and nothing else. Where is discrimination? I really want to be investigated.
This is exactly why (this type of) capitalism is not sustainable in the long run, unless a substantial part of the globe is permanently kept in a state of relative poverty.
Because the aim is to import people with lower quality of life, then reduce the quality of life of the country, the immigrants won't care because they are used to bad living conditions.
@@antred11
Africa and south Asia will not be allowed to escape poverty
Romania Work Visa for foreigner workers is unfair business now. Romanian Recruiting agents and employers bring foreigner workers in Romania and than don't provide work to them or don't pay as labor contract. Also treat them as slave. Some employer get tax by thier salary. After this bad behavior, foreign work try to escape to schangen countries and get caught and deport. Romania embassies give appointments four to six months. And then refuse the applicant. Now it's worst situation for foreign workers in Romania.
Romanian, Croatian, Czech and Serbian are labours of Europe who mostly works for France, Finland, Norway, Germany and Switzerland. German youth worker prefer even less pay. ut good location as Spain or countryside in france.
I think European employers went too far to play with delicate balance of employee and workers.
In future now it will cause many disputes among workers obviously local workers will hit new arrivals. it's same all over the world.
for everything, I held German bureaucracy responsible.
Transylvania Hungarian land treaty of trianon expired its time to give back ethnic lands "Vlachs"
@@zoltanzzoltuy with pillow on his head throws comments out of nowhere 🤣
There is nowhere lack of workers only lack of good sallaries.
Same thing as in rest of the balkan, meny media speaking about labor shortages, but no one mention conditions that offered to future labor!
The shortage of labor is real because of very low birthrates.
@@andreiaiosif2534 Half of young croats population flew to the west in search for better saleries, and they now import asian labor force, because domestic wont work for small wages. I agree that low birthrate had an impact, but that is first reason for labor shortages. Same in serbia, bosnia, montenegro...
When people who finished ther schools with hope they will become profesors, doctors, surgeon's, sciencetists etc, after graduation when they realase how system work and struggling with bills, they starts to work in caffes, in cleaning agencies, taxi, security and other underpaid jobs, meny of them struck with big disipoitmant turn to gamble, crime, drugs, prostitution. But at the other hand you have, footballers, basketball, tennis and other sports players that earns milions and milions of dollara per year for what? They push the ball and that's it! Big respect but theres earnings are only justufyed by those corupt 0.0001 percent who rule the world becaause they need them to entertain masses just not to sea what happening in front of their eyes!
Romania compared to Croatia, really has economy. Croatia has good tourism. Balkans have 15-20 unemployment, Romania has 3-5%.
This is not true. Romania doesn’t have workers shortage. There are so many poor people in the country that will be happy to work. But they rather give the jobs to foreign workers because they work for cheap labor. Shame on the big companies.
Only in construction we have
One group of worker underbidding the other. That is exactly how the rich get richer.
..... instead of people staying in their country.
You can always import someone that's cheaper.
Of course. Immigration create a more uneaqal and unfair society.
Finally someone gets it
Rather then making the work places more attractive, we import people from asia, not very productive
modern slavery, they want to keep the wages as low as possible while the cost of living increases
taci ba prajitule. poti face in Ro mai multi bani ca afara. ideea e ca romanii sunt oportunisti si pe langa asta cand sunt in Ro se lauda si cheltuie mult si afara stau 5 in 2 camere si mananca doar din supermerket la reducere si apoi normal ca strang mai mult afara. de ce vin in RO sa si puna dinti sau sa rezolve ceva acte? ca in vest nu si-ar permite nici sa treaca pragul sa intrebe pretul. nu mai vorbesc de mancat in restaurante decente. in ro o masa la un restaurant decent e 15-40 euro si afara nu scapi fara 40 euro si se poate duce la 200. dar na, romanii cred ca daca mananci la cel mai slab restaurant niste pizza congelata in paris, ti-ai permis o masa la restaurant in paris. nu, nu ti-ai permis
I live in Bucharest and I see lots of asians every day, it really wasn't like this a couple of months ago, but its good, asians seem to be tireless workers, even though many times they dont get paid as much. I just love when I walk in a fast food and a sri lankan guy speaks to me in romanian
every tireless worker has a family and when they don't get paid well that price eventually is paid by them or their children
Is possible for them to leave like those vietnamese constitution workers who decided to dip when the money lowered in value a bit. That was a couple of years ago
It's not good that they don't get paid well.
First it's directly abusing them by underpaying their work.
Second it's keeping the charlatans that pay them a pittance in business and probably netting them a fortune.
Third it's bad for you and the rest of the local population in the near future, as it will bring overall wages down.
wait till you get the numbers like in the west, and you will hate immigrants. good in small numbers, destructive to a country and its native people and culture in masses
But does the same Sri Lankan dude understand you when you speak back? That is the most important thing. They all speak English but it seems none of them understand English when a native English person speaks back. I have the same problem, speak it but don't understand a word of it.
Clearly Romania should jsut deny work permits so that Romanias hotels etc have to use Romanian workers instead and pay higher salaries to achive it
Its not practical if join EU. Denying competition. There should be competition at all levels for economy to succeed and adjust itself.
@@ishanmarjan They will still allow workers from the rest of the EU. This conflict is about importing poverty from the poorest countries outside the EU. Stopping this immigration is fully legan in EU.
The good thing is that they will usually run to the rich EU countries, such as Austria or Germany, on their own after a while.
The situation is the same in Bulgaria. After decades of economic problems and low birth rates, now there aren't enough people to work in low paying sectors such as tourism. The hotel owners here are straw men for the mafia as well, so the basic principles of supply and demand do not always apply. Money comes in from other sources, not from hotel activities. Also, those same people paid pitiful wages, made workers work overtime every day and in the end didn't pay them. Now they're crying over the lack of workers.
This is exactly the situation. Romanians don't want anymore to work 7 days a week, 10-12 hours per day for 500-600 euros. Usually this type of ''employer" overworks and underpays his workforce. And the lack of people is real, younger generation of 19-20 entering workforce are less than a half of generation of 60-65 who retires in the same year.
There millions in India and Pakistan who will gladly accept the jobs
how about not asking us to be overqualified and with experience and then pay 400 euros?..... left romania 8 years ago tougether with 90% of my generation.... still the best decision in my life.... at the time you were struggeling to find a job even with 200... and all the mfs were asking for experience
Same here and I agree. I had high education and still struggled to find a decent job and salary. Then decided to move to Paris, I educated myself even more because I always wanted to have that abroad University experience and it’s so much better to live and work where your skills are appreciated.
pay the workers reasonably and you won't have any problems
Romanian are in the UK working so hard . Is they return, will be chaos for the UK lol
UK is already in chaos
Maybe paying a livable wage will help
Roughly 96% of Romania's population already own a property or land, it has the highest home ownership in the world. You can easily rent your own apartment with €250 per month if you need to. You can buy the same apartment with less than €45,000. You can't do this in most of the western countries.
The average wage in Romania is €850 in hand per month.
@@omi685 thank you for the information
Of course more money an the people will not leave 🏡🏡🏡
@@omi685 96% house ownership because they just live in the parent's home maybe, or go into debt for 30 years
@@alf3071 Because after the communist regime fell, the land was returned to and split between the people.
Owning your own house is the main goal for a Romanian, the Romanian culture teaches the children that they should always own their own property, not pay rent to someone else. The people will ask you what's wrong with you if you hit the age of 30-35 in Romania and you don't have your own property/land or are on the path to accomplish that.
Do you prefer to live in rental homes for the rest of your life as half the population of most western countries are doing?
I am a foreigner living in Romania. Hospitality prices went up way too much, but no service or bare minimum. I would be happy if it’s expensive but with quality… Owners are megalomaniacs, classic Balkan problem. Would any Romanian work for 500€ for 7 days???
Romania is Carpathian not Balkan . Illiterate
500euros+accomodation+food. the locals are earning less than you for the same job if you compare it this way. you are here just because you can not leave the employer easily, as you cost more to him than a local, but your only duty here is to work non stop for the company.
It's the same in Bulgaria. A terrible labor shortage.
Give more money I promise u the people will stay home who want to leave 🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡
Just that in Romania there are no issues in tourism, many Romanians are also taking jobs. This video is a bit subjective. Our problems come in the huge construction sector, which is huger compared to the region...
@@normanvalentin3633not as huge as Kaufland Romania. Ask them why are they working with foreigners and what wages are they paying and why?
Please tell about the miserably salaries there are in our country. This is why most of the cases there is a lack of workers. Please let Europe know the minimum net salary in romania is 410 euros and the prices for groceries are like in western europe.
You are right but EU already knows about this and doesn’t care !
@@amecmn9990 it's not fair, but then again everyone is complaining no workers. The days are gone were slaves were found here
One man's trash is another man's treasure
This is not only Romania.
It’s all over the planet.
Do you know a county that has surplus in the work force ?
Sadly, there are many places where young people out of college cannot find a job even in low wage service industry.
@@leanlifer where ?
@@tfhmobilGoogle "Employment by country"
It's not hard to understand that the world is a big place.
If you think that no countries have problems with unemployment then why are people coming from Sri Lanka to work in Romania?
Africa by and large.
@@tfhmobil lol in almost whole Asia and Africa man
I only hope the locals are treating these guys with respect. Working in Romania's capital some 12 years ago, some of my African colleagues faced frustration, racism, bullying from the random individuals ( i heard a romanian guy calling him a monkey), and this frustration made them leave back home. Romanians like to move abroad but there will be always those individuals who dislike any immigrants from the East immigrating to their own country. I am from Croatia and same thing is happening here. Living in Germany, I see my fellow Croatian spreading their culture, music, language, flags all over the region, but if an Indian IT worker gets a placement in Croatia, sooner or later he will be racially offended, if not even physically mistreated at some point, especially if he shows any different cultural behavior such as waving a flag or listening loud indian music.(showing a different culture). Sad reality of culturally undevelloped eastern european individuals .
Yes, it's funny. Many eastern Europeans migrate to other countries but don't want people going to their countries. Even worse, eastern Europe is very poor and the population is declining as they need workers.
@@taz09216 It is very selfish and ironic indeed.
to some degree yes, but that other scenario you described has its limits
@@anaz.2454it's not selfish.
@christos.5302 sure...I personally know 4 cases of racial physical abuse in Zagreb that ended up with hospitalizations, including women. It happens but it is rare, true.
The fact that many Romanians migrated to Western Europe has risen significantly the wages in Romania, even if are still lower than Western Europe, the wages went from and average 380€ in 2013 to 820€ in 2023. Still much lower than Western Europe, but if it will more than double like it did in the next 10 years it will reach the wages of Spain and Italy.
Double wages, double groceries and utilities cost. Nothing has actually improved since 2013
@@MarcusKuann That's not true, looking at any economic data Romania has improved since 2013 a lot, even if it remains poorer than Western Europe
@@metodiusm428 Like i said,salaries improved,groceries and utilities also improved so the result is nothing has improved. Its not hard for me to go to the store and check prices,or check my last electricity,gas bills and compare them to 2013.
it s not about wages it s about the purchasing power and the consumption rate. RO is just like spain or portugal right now and will be better. Poland and Ro economies are skyrocking since 2013 and will be better. Ro was under RU economical occupation with most of the key companies in energy under RU ownership directly or via Austria or Hungary. big factories of steal or other metals, the same Ru ownership. petrol and LNG buyed from russians instead of using romanian gas and lng
@@tlNCGthat i agree Romania has natural ressources but countries as Hungary dont have that luxury
i have 2 srilanka's dudes in my city, working at a bar. polite, hard working and not thinking that anyone owes them anything.
€6,000 to an agency to find you a job in Romania. Wow.
thats how scam goes in India,Pakistan,Nepal and Srilanka
and how many you would pay, if you are born in the Indian village ?
In Indonesia people pay approximately 2500eur.
Transylvania Hungarian land treaty of trianon expired its time to give back ethnic lands "Vlachs"
@@zoltanzzolt u'd love a hunic Hong Kong episode wouldnt u sneaky git.
Working 7 days week? Shouldn't that be illegal in a EU country? Salaries are similar here in Turkey but cost of living is half and you got at least a day to rest.
5 days at job and 2 days delivery food for example
Salaries in Romania are soon almost triple than in Turkey. These were unskilled workers
It should be 2 days. Or the days cost more.
Since they are not EU citizens nor have legal documents to protect them then EU can't do anything
People saying they need slaves, I guess...
Romanian wages are taxed 40-45% so from a 400 euro wage you actualy get 250Euros in hand to live for a month, pay Western Europe level bills and food prices.
Now let's see who is not paying taxes in Romania. All the German companies and banks? All the international corporations? And Romania still has "politicians" and "government"?
What are you expecting if you are importing or buying utilities and food from foreigners?
Nu ca auzi pe aici doar prostii de 3000 de lei pe luna minimum pe luna doar prostii in fabrica nu sari de 2500 de lei cu tot bonuri scade drumul mancarea nu mai zic de o chirie , zi srilancheanul ia 3000 de lei mancare cazare plm și un bot după munca le face 10 intr un apartament ... nu am nimic cu ei ca ii manaca leii în tara lor dar nici noi nu o ducem prea bine
Yeah,Romanian here,with those 550 euros that i am getting for a month back home i can barely pay rent utilities and buy food,not to mention that if you have a children you are basically doomed,parents sick?some illness that is having a medication thats not covered by the government?well,congratulations,you entered life in hard mode.And for the sickness of being part of this totally equal Europe,where every single country in Europe have the same minimum wage,i chosed to watch all this from another European country,where,i dont know,maybe there is a glich,maybe there is an error in the system,here they pay me 550 per week..😂
Romania be careful with the immigrants,❤ make sure you doesn’t lose control over them as the occidental countries.
If wage is the issue, then it is the responsibility of government to rise the lowest legal wage, so employers can't pay under wage.
Easy to say harder to make, if they rise minimum wage they will be forced to rise salary fro the employers of the state and this will reflect in the deficit. Is not possible to make a law only for the privat employers.
No more socialist interventionist policies
Get stuffed
the gdp per capita here is 7k ron accounting for tax evasion, and for an employer you dont only have costs with labour
I have an idea how to solve this. It may sound revolutionary, but it is worth a try. Pay people a decent salary and not expect them to live on minimum wage. It may be crazy enough to work.
They don't see a problem in the current situation
Why change a winning strategy
"Labour shortage" places the blame on the workers. "Wage shortage", which is more accurate, places the blame on the employer. Unfortunately the the government instead of letting the "free market" regulate itself, opened a back door to let the immigrants in so that the supply of workers is high enough so that the employers don't have to pay fairly. Of course this patches a problem while creating a whole other one which is arguably worse.
1st step, detoxing the labour market.
2nd step ok wages
And everyone is saying the same. NO ONE is surprised or guessing why people leave
I'm a Romanian businesses owner working in the plumbing sector and i have huge problems finding workers. The problem are low wages, so you may ask. Why don't you pay more? Simple i have to contract jobs at the market rate, already i pay 70 euros net a day and 120 in total (50 go to the state) if i pay more i couldn't make a profit since people are not that wealthy and cant afford prices like in Germany where to do the same job costs about 3 times as much. I can't wait for the wages to go up so that i can charge more for jobs and attract workers from abroad. The other problem is that simply there are not enough workers because if a business pay more to attract workers they are simply taking those people from another businesses . Lots of working age people emigrated abroad and i can't compete with wages from Germany. This is putting a lot of stress to the Romanian economy since with the lack of workers we can't develop our economy fast enough. Lots of businesses who hire here come from abroad and if wages get like those from abroad they will move out and we haven't yet developed our own industry that cam compete with the world giants. So if that happens lots of jobs will disappear. I know this is controver but a developing country needs low wages and lots of workers to develop it's economy. Every now rich country was once a place where labour was abundant and cheap but that allowed them to grow their economy to a level where they could now compete with outsiders, if wages become much higher but we haven't built a powerful industrial and service sector we will face stagnation and an economy unable to grow. Look at the Japanese after the second world war, labour there was cheap, they had a young population and they had a population boom after the 50's and had explosive growth until the 90's, since already from the 70's fertility went down hill they exhausted the workforce in the late 90's, now they have a old workforce and with that a stagnant economy for now decades. The problem is they had 40 years to develop, we are at half the journey but we already have an old workforce and if we face stagnation like they did our economy has become stagnant before becoming rich
This is your case. But there are businesses who earn hundreds of thousands, if not millions a month and still pay the minimum wage or the medium income to their workers. Those business owners can’t lead and have boss attitudes all day long.
@@davidmark225 they pay as much as they have to and not a cent more. People accept bad jobs because they have no choice but often that is the best choice they have.
NO NO, don´t bring foreign workers unless they are other Pure Europeans. That is how it started in France "we need more workers, France is growing". NO NO. Only from your own culture: other Pure Europeans, like Polish, Hungarians, Greek, etc etc. I am from Argentina, and we have followed the same policies and we are an example of a United country with One culture.
"i have huge problems finding workers"
Well that is a bold faced lie. I know situations where the employers would dismiss job applicants, for no good reason, aside for wanting employees that would work indefinitely (no a bad thing to want, but they also didn't want to pay a fair salary). Or only wanted the ones that already had experience or speed (but again, did not want to pay enough to sustain that experience/speed).
I'm a Romanian businesses owner working in the plumbing sector and i have huge problems finding workers. The problem are low wages, so you may ask. Why don't you pay more? Simple i have to contract jobs at the market rate, already i pay 70 euros net a day and 120 in total (50 go to the state) if i pay more i couldn't make a profit since people are not that wealthy and cant afford prices like in Germany where to do the same job costs about 3 times as much. I can't wait for the wages to go up so that i can charge more for jobs and attract workers from abroad. The other problem is that simply there are not enough workers because if a business pay more to attract workers they are simply taking those people from another businesses . Lots of working age people emigrated abroad and i can't compete with wages from Germany. This is putting a lot of stress to the Romanian economy since with the lack of workers we can't develop our economy fast enough. Lots of businesses who hire here come from abroad and if wages get like those from abroad they will move out and we haven't yet developed our own industry that cam compete with the world giants. So if that happens lots of jobs will disappear. I know this is controver but a developing country needs low wages and lots of workers to develop it's economy. Every now rich country was once a place where labour was abundant and cheap but that allowed them to grow their economy to a level where they could now compete with outsiders, if wages become much higher but we haven't built a powerful industrial and service sector we will face stagnation and an economy unable to grow. Look at the Japanese after the second world war, labour there was cheap, they had a young population and they had a population boom after the 50's and had explosive growth until the 90's, since already from the 70's fertility went down hill they exhausted the workforce in the late 90's, now they have a old workforce and with that a stagnant economy for now decades. The problem is they had 40 years to develop, we are at half the journey but we already have an old workforce and if we face stagnation like they did our economy has become stagnant before becoming rich
After 20 years of working in Romania and being forced to resign from my job, I realized that I will not receive unemployment after all the taxes and fees paid on a daily basis.
I decided to stop working legally because I encourage the payment of political thieves from Romania.
Why did you resign? Never do that, ALWAYS let them fire you!
@@wyqtor it makes no difference.
@@andreiaiosif2534 That's not true, you are entitled to receive unemployment benefits if you get fired (I know, they are pitiful in our country, but still...)
Welcome to Romania
@@wyqtor30 euros per month is the unemployment benefit.
you can take an interest in convincing yourself.
300€ a month,6 days a week , 12-16 hours a day that's the truth why no one wants to work for those thieves
500 euros, the rest is true. 382 euros is minimum wage.
They believe that higher salaries equals better life, dream on.
In UK there are a lot of situations where 16 people share a house of 4 rooms to afford the rent and to be able to save money
It is to be hoped that Romania does not look to North Korea for it's labour requirements, they do work for next to nothing but you will be paying a lot to their boss, he looks after their money for them, and you may incur quite a few additional costs in the long run.
I'm Romanian. The biggest problem is cultural; we are taught that Romania is the worst and that it's worse than Iraq living here and that you need to emigrate otherwise you're a loser. 10 years ago salaries were indeed miserable, but that's not the case anymore (of course, some industries fare better and some worse). Very few Romanians make under 500 Euros. The average wage is approx 1000. Trust me, 1000 Euros in a mid sized Romanian town is the equivalent of 2000 in most Westerns countries. Food in supermarkets are similarly priced, but everything else is cheaper (rent, transport and especially going out, restaurants, etc). The communist mentality persists and Romanians love blaming others for their problems. The reality is that Romania is quite functional but Romanians have a hissy fit if you tell them that. They want to be victims. We still have corruption and some problems...but life, especially in Transylvanian cities (Cluj, Sibiu, Brasov, Timisoara, Oradea) resembles that of life in any first world country...
Working more hours to achieve an average salary doesn't mean you get a good salary. Plus, most of those "extra" money are untaxed
esti caterinca rau
completely delusional
Foarte bine spus!
The simple answer is that Romanians get paid minimum wage where foreigners get paid medium wage by law
As soon as the foreign workers arrive here, they see they are getting paid nothing and leave the country. Im romanian.
pay decent salaries and you will have people working
oh and by the way these foreign workers wont put up with these wages for more than a year usually
they are much smarter than locals
They just want them for 5 years enough time to replace them all with new ones
All the Romanians are working in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and France. Cause its the reason why Romania is a part of the EU. Since west europeans themselves lack huge labor force even now in Offices, they needed cheap labor force from eastern europe. If foreign workers from Africa, Middle-East or SE Asia come to work in Romania, they will immedeatly immigrate to western Europe, where wages are 4 times higher than Romania. Even if they work illegaly they would still make twice as much than Romania. Thats the scary part of joining the EU or any other huge econmical giants. Funny thing is that the EU will never make eastern europe developed as them. Its simply modern colonization.
Ja, ich bin mir sicher, dass es auch Sklaven und Migranten sind. Portugal, Spanien, Panama, Costa Rica bringen seit langem Migranten aus Afrika, JAMIACANS, mit. ja Kolumbien. Sie haben eigene Sklaven. Du weisst
Natürlich können Afrikaner auch überhaupt nicht arbeiten. Dasselbe gilt auch für Portugal mit vielen asiatischen Verwandten von Afrikanern. Ich sehe diese Länder, Kolumbien, Mexiko, einige haben indigene Arbeitskräfte, ich verstehe, dass das Leben ein 560er ist, ich glaube nicht, dass ich sie für die Arbeitsbelastung bezahlen werde
Well, most salaries are actually under 700 euro and that is making people want to leave as 700 would be a bare minimum to survive in here. The situation in the 90 was much worse than today.
Romania needs work force because half of Romanians left to better countries that offer better salaries, working conditions and better life quality.
The trully sad thing is we take only some cheap unskilled workers :(
And export the highly skilled ones. But hey, we still have the bureaucrats.
@@ciprianpopa1503imported from the west too
@@eedragonr Who else was imported from the west in this context?
@@ciprianpopa1503 "leadership"
@@eedragonr What are you talking about?
Așa zisii patroni sunt in realitate niste exploatatori,țin muncitorii peste program și plătesc o mizerie de salarii(300 euro în cel mai fericit caz)...
Minimul legal astăzi este aproape de 400 dar mulți îi păcălesc pentru că nu știu nici limba nici ce drepturi au. În plus fiind singuri și departe de casă știu că ar lucra și 7 zile din 7 și 12 ore pe zi dacă ar primi bani mai mulți. Trag la jug pentru 500-600 euro adică de 4-5 ori mai mult decât puteau câștiga acasă.
Lol foreign workers isnt the solution, my country has workers shortage too and all foreigners who come from Asia see Balkan as trampoline to jump in Europe,solution is higher wages and improving working conditions
Greetings to Romania with Love 💕💕💕💕💕💕!!!!!
romania rich now.
😂
@@Exxperiment626 razi tu dar de anul asta am intrat pe lista tarilor bogate din lume in mod oficial. mai iesi si tu din sat de la tine daca ai in cap doar itealea, iu kei, jermanea si dubaiu. 70% din tarile de pe lume sunt mai sarace ca noi
Fix labor shortage by promoting family values, and making life for families easier, so that there is no population decline.
I guess that'd be too wholesome though right? Better import unskilled people and exploit them! It's not enough for the richest in our society to win, you must also lose!
Families are also getting old...
How about raising the salaries?????
Stop complaining about worker shortages, start there are enough workers, you just need to pay them decently.
500€ is a bad salary, pay them more!
A population with decent salaries, is the basis for a stable economy, the more people earn, the more they can consume.
By putting pressure on the labour market you’re only prolonging the life of companies, which depend on cheap labour because of dumping prices, because they don’t offer decent service.
If you pay Romanian workers 1000€ instead of 500€ I’m sure they will gladly take the jobs.
I know one Romanian who worked as a Construction Legal Affair manager in the korean company Hyundai Engineering in the middle of Sahara in Algeria. He speaks English and French and corresponding education on construction. Both languages are useful coz French is a official language there and English is used to communicate with Korean and other colleagues. He makes over 100 000 dollars after tax a year and I believe he is quite rich in Romania. How could he make it ?
Because he is smart Romanian mofo.
Skilled work. Do you expect someone stacking shelves to be paid as much as an engineer
It looks like in the next few years a lot of countries in Europe and Asia are going to be competing for foreign workers. Aging populations and low birth rates are becoming a huge issue for some countries.
Plentry of people over there in Asia...they have people to fill the EU many times over
Europeans are having less and less kids get ready for mass migration of African and Asians
NO NO, don´t bring foreign workers unless they are other Pure Europeans. That is how it started in France "we need more workers, France is growing". NO NO. Only from your own culture: other Pure Europeans, like Polish, Hungarians, Greek, etc etc. I am from Argentina, and we have followed the same policies and we are an example of a United country with One culture.
Pays 500 euro a month, says it difficult to find workers. Thats the minimum wage in Romania. Don’t expect ppl rushing in
if you dont like minimum wage, you should have stayed more in school😏
The main problem is that in Romania as an employee you pay similar level of taxes as in countries like Denmark but instead of enjoying the same quality of infrastructure and social services you get potholes, moldy hospitals and schools with broken toilets. Combine this with the fact that we are not getting paid in euros and we also import most goods and pay similar prices as western europeans for things like clothing and electronics. Now you can see why most romanians are driven away from the country. Even if you are in the top 1% of salary range your quality of life is much worse here and you’d rather take your skills elsewhere. Meanwhile common people realise they can barely make ends meets after working honestly their entire lives.
For decades the Romanian workers have fixed the Western Europe's labor shortage, that's why there are few left out here to fix our own shortage.
Lipsa de oameni e reală, generația de 19-20 ani care intră pe piața muncii e sub jumătate față de generația de 60-65 ani care se pensionează. Iar cei puțini care sunt, nu sunt interesați de joburi prost plătite, care presupun efort fizic mare, ore suplimentare, 6-7 zile lucrate pe săptămână mai ales dacă sunt și departe de casă și sezoniere.
One more thing: the immigration laws in Romania are highly disadvantegous for foreigners. You'll have to renew your residence permit every year for five years, and only then you can obtain a permanent residency. The whole process of obtaining a work permit takes around 3 months, and if your boss fires you, you have 3 months to find a job and apply again for a new permit which takes around 2 months.
There is no type of blue-card of some sort (like in Germany), meaning that even if you work at a managerial level in a tech company, or as a waitress, you go through the same process every year, for 5 years.
I'm sorry but there is a limited quantity of slaves options...
Basic rule of economics
Cheers from Romania
INTELLIGENCE ECONOMIES EUROPE:
That is because they earn higher in Germany and the Netherlands.
While decreasing the wages of Production in the Netherlands and Germany, causing more Dutch and Germans, to not become technicians at all, due to Unfair Wages Competition.
Some EU rights and Laws, are ruining prosperity in Europe.
Who wants to work for €500 a month in Romania?!
Romanian people can go to UK and earn £££2,500 every month without any problems.. So, I don't think the Wages in Romania is attractive to anyone from Romania!
SAME PPL CAN FOR SURE MIGRATE BUT NOT HALF OF THE COUNTY .... WHO IS GONNA WORK BACK HOME IF ALL WORKES LEFT AND THE PPL HOME ARE KIDS /RETIRED PPL ? AFTER THAT THEY WANT OTHER PPL TO WORK IN HORIBLE CONDITIONS IN ROMANIA AND BUILD THE COUNTRY FOR THEM KEKW
And pay minimum £1,300 per month to rent your own place? Plus, minimum £200 for the utility bills per month? Plus, the council tax worth roughly £1,000 per year or more? To pay over £200 per month for the transport? What about the food??? What about other monthly expenses?
Yeah, what a great deal to go to the UK and just survive. What's the difference?
Romania needs workers from outside because the pay is so bad own people,we are not a slaves!!!806.53 Euro in costruction bussines you think they pay so well?I can't pay my rent and food with that money, but also have a family with children,Our prices in stores are more expensive than in Germany and we are paid worst than Africa
Natürlich können Afrikaner auch überhaupt nicht arbeiten. Dasselbe gilt auch für Portugal mit vielen asiatischen Verwandten von Afrikanern. Ich sehe diese Länder, Kolumbien, Mexiko, einige haben indigene Arbeitskräfte, ich verstehe, dass das Leben ein 560er ist, ich glaube nicht, dass ich sie für die Arbeitsbelastung bezahlen werde
Because vampires can't work in the day...
not as hard... lol
can i come?
That beach looked appalling with all the parasols/tables all neatly set up like a human car park.
His chefs have never worked in kitchen before..???!?
Investment in the Romanian Youth & Less Investment in the Foreign Workers! The FOREIGN WORKERS are all ready paid well while the Youth of Romania are paid less then the FOREIGN WORKERS!
amen !
if you have to leave your country just to works for $500/ month. Imagine the situation back at homw
It is very simple; just like in Poland and Bulgaria must Romania raise the wages so their people in the rest in Europe want to return home again. Most civilians of other european countries would not mind that a big part of those uncivilised people return home so that their neighbourhood will become more livable again!
Here is Poland we would love to see our people back. Salaries are good comparing to cost of living, clean and safe cities unlike western europe
When you raise wages, prices also raise. XD It is not that simple.
@@recikkrecik1886If that was the case, millions of Polacks wouldn't migrate to Western Europe.
No one wants live in Eastern-Europe.
Romania has way better wages than Bulgaria, the average salary in Romania is 1012€ and in Bulgaria is 860€. Poland has an average salary of 1041, so pretty much the same as the Romanian one… and sorry ? Romania is the 11th safest country in Europe with extremely low crime rates… so don’t feel superior to those Romanians that went to work abroad, they come from a way safer country then yours by far.
The wages in Poland are similar to Romania already, and much higher than Bulgaria
Get them from US- Mexico border.
sent then all here ...our population droping like a stone in water, we need milions and milions of humans
The problem is that these owners want to make money hand over fist, but give the employees as little as possible. Instead of raising prices to pay decent wages, they should drive that 2022 Bentley Bentayga for a few more years before buying the latest model.
Is so hard to answer, feel so sorry for this guy. Is ok try to get those who left for France ,UK and Germany to offer instead of 400 eu/month something a bit more than their rent . Share a bit of how much did you got the hotels for,and what job did Ceausescu gaved to you that you becomed wealthy enough to get the hotels ? Is ok relax, none asks this questions in Romania anymore, you are safe.
We've got them here and they work on construction sites but there's a sting to better wages rents in UK are high and there's slum living. The Romanian government should offer higher wages in there own countries. There's corruption in Romania like job agencies fleecing job seekers for money up front to an a non existent job in the UK.
Nobody cares anyway.