300,000 Romanian workers laid off since COVID-19 lockdown, as jobless rate rises to two-year high

Some 304,000 people have been laid off since Romania decreed a state of emergency in mid-March to contain the spread of the coronavirus, authorities said. The Labor Inspectorate said Tuesday that employees from the trade sector, at car and motorcycle repair shops, in manufacturing and in industry had been made jobless. More than 55,000 of … Continuă lectura 300,000 Romanian workers laid off since COVID-19 lockdown, as jobless rate rises to two-year high