The Association of Independent Automotive Service Companies (ASSAI) requests the intervention of the Embassy of the Republic of China so as to hire Chinese citizens, whom it intends to pay with amounts ranging from 250 to 800 euro, reads a press release of the Association.
The ASSAI representatives maintain that Romania's automotive repair industry has been facing for over five years a growing trained workforce shortage. The increasing number of car registrations in Romania entails that a sufficient enough number of employees qualified to deliver the specific activities of repair and maintenance of the national automotive park is ensured, they say.
"At present, Romania holds an automotive park of over 7.5 million vehicles, 14 years old on average, and these old cars are technically obsolete due to such a primitive infrastructure as the Romanian one and need frequent service interventions. As many as eight out of ten automotive service stations in Romania work below their designed capacity due to qualified workforce shortage," the release further mentions.
"Experienced staff have come to actually blackmail car service companies owners, taking advantage of the workforce shortage in the field and will not take salaries below 1,000-1,400 euro. It is difficult to pay an employee such a salary, against the backdrop of instability and lack of legislative and fiscal predictability, that characterise the Romanian business environment," Chairman of ASSAI Cristian Muntean stated, as quoted in the release.
Qualified staff choose to leave and work for more money in countries such as the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, Italy and the lack of involvement on behalf of control institutions in the field, and especially fiscal domain only stimulate the expansion of unauthorised activities, ASSAI maintains.
Under these circumstances, ASSAI intends to carry out a pilot programme of recruiting and relocating 80 people from the Popular Republic of China and if it proves these people can integrate themselves and achieve results in the automotive service companies who have agreed to join in this project, the programme will continue until the staff deficit issue is solved.
"The wages offered by employers range between 250 and 300 euro for car wash companies. Beside these wages, the employers also provide accommodation and food for expat community. We recall that the automotive repair trained workforce deficit in Romania currently exceeds 20,000 people," the ASSAI Chairman further said.
AGERPRES .
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