Re: Romania
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 2:24 am
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Another day in the Universe
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YMix wrote:Speaking of weird looking people, meet Ombudsman Victor Ciorbea.noddy wrote:with a full disclaimer that judging books by their cover is wrong and childish and ermm yeh blah.
the guy actually looks like a lizard, im waiting for that tongue to flick out
YMix wrote: . . .
"Where's my lawyer?" - People didn't ask such dumb questions back in the day.
Romania has been a favoured IT outsourcing destination for many years, with competitive advantages including its domestic market of 20m, one of Europe’s fastest-growing economies, and young graduates with good language skills. The country can also build on its communist legacy of excellence in science, mathematics, and technical education. The focus is shifting to using these to develop homegrown innovative companies.
Translation: local banks won't lend to the locals.Start-up finance in Romania can be hard to come by, according to Peter Barta, an angel investor and VC fund manager.
A good thing then that foreigners have interest in financing them.YMix wrote:Translation: local banks won't lend to the locals.Start-up finance in Romania can be hard to come by, according to Peter Barta, an angel investor and VC fund manager.
Lucky Romania . . .A referendum on banning same-sex marriage has drawn international anti-gay marriage campaigners to Romania including Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples
The vast majority of local banks are owned by foreign interests.Typhoon wrote:A good thing then that foreigners have interest in financing them.
Yeah. There's going to be a referendum on the issue of family around here, demanded by the Pro Family Coalition (Coaliția pentru familie). The coalition is allegedly getting Russian money and legal advice from "conservative" elements in the USA.Typhoon wrote:Grauniad | Anti-gay marriage clerk Kim Davis takes her fight from Kentucky to Romania
Lucky Romania . . .A referendum on banning same-sex marriage has drawn international anti-gay marriage campaigners to Romania including Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to gay couples
How Romania became an EU workers' rights 'guinea pig'
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Since a Liberal-Democratic government passed new labour laws in 2011, rights protection has become the privilege of those working for large companies in Romania.
In practice, the law changes have turned the country into a paradox: a seemingly statistical success story with low unemployment and an economy on the rise, but a social disaster, with 40 percent of the country's workforce earning the minimum wage or under, according to experts.
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"In other countries, the minimum wage is the floor below which you shouldn't pay. In Romania, it is an orientation mark," says Stephan Meuser, head of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Romania, a political foundation close to Germany's social democratic party.
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"Representatives of both employers' associations and unions consider that Romania was used as a 'guinea pig' by foreign investors with the support of the troika, to decentralise collective bargaining radically," according to a European Journal of Industrial Relations study by Aurora Trif, a social scientist from Dublin University and lecturer in human resources management.
According to a union official quoted in the study, "all the labour market reforms [in Romania] were initiated and adopted at the recommendation of two players; one is the American Chamber of Commerce and the other one is the Foreign Investors' Council. The Romanian model has been exported to other central and east European countries and foreign investors wish to extend it into western European countries". AmCham and the FIC say they are part of a larger group of at least 17 different business lobby organisations.
The result of this has been "catastrophic" for Romanian society, says Vasile Gogescu.
"We're slowly becoming the working poor," Geogescu said. "Two employees earning each the national minimum wage, if they start a family [together], say they have a child, it's catastrophic. They cannot pay their bills by working, and I'm not talking about paying for whims, but about simply affording everyday basics".
Wow! You guys suck at implementing capitalism just as much as we suck at implementing Socialism.YMix wrote:How Romania became an EU workers' rights 'guinea pig'
[...]
Since a Liberal-Democratic government passed new labour laws in 2011, rights protection has become the privilege of those working for large companies in Romania.
In practice, the law changes have turned the country into a paradox: a seemingly statistical success story with low unemployment and an economy on the rise, but a social disaster, with 40 percent of the country's workforce earning the minimum wage or under, according to experts.
[...]
"In other countries, the minimum wage is the floor below which you shouldn't pay. In Romania, it is an orientation mark," says Stephan Meuser, head of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Romania, a political foundation close to Germany's social democratic party.
[...]
"Representatives of both employers' associations and unions consider that Romania was used as a 'guinea pig' by foreign investors with the support of the troika, to decentralise collective bargaining radically," according to a European Journal of Industrial Relations study by Aurora Trif, a social scientist from Dublin University and lecturer in human resources management.
According to a union official quoted in the study, "all the labour market reforms [in Romania] were initiated and adopted at the recommendation of two players; one is the American Chamber of Commerce and the other one is the Foreign Investors' Council. The Romanian model has been exported to other central and east European countries and foreign investors wish to extend it into western European countries". AmCham and the FIC say they are part of a larger group of at least 17 different business lobby organisations.
The result of this has been "catastrophic" for Romanian society, says Vasile Gogescu.
"We're slowly becoming the working poor," Geogescu said. "Two employees earning each the national minimum wage, if they start a family [together], say they have a child, it's catastrophic. They cannot pay their bills by working, and I'm not talking about paying for whims, but about simply affording everyday basics".
Yep. Hunger is a phenomenal motivator.noddy wrote:seems romania is ahead of the curve on this - the rest of us are degrading back to where they are at.
globalisation and competing with 5 billion desperados who would sell their souls for more food is what it is.
King Michael of Romania, the last surviving head of state from World War II, who was credited with pre-emptively saving thousands of lives when, at 22, he had the audacity to arrest the country’s dictator, a puppet of Hitler, died on Tuesday at his residence in Switzerland. He was 96.