The business environment in Romania can no longer bear, at this moment, a new increase in the minimum wage in the economy, the chairman of the National Council of Small and Medium-sized Private Enterprises in Romania (CNIPMMR), Florin Jianu, said on Monday, in Zalau, northwestern County of Salaj.
On Tuesday there will be a meeting of the Tripartite National Council, regarding the sectors of activity on which there will be collective negotiations regarding salaries and benefits in the future, and in this meeting, the unions will probably demand an increase in minimum wage from January 1, 2024, Jianu added, Agerpres reports.
He emphasized that a balance must be found, and the business environment should determine the state to become more professional, flexible, efficient and more focused on results.
CNIPMMR, nationally represented employers' confederation for SMEs, organized the "Entrepreneurship and Digitalization" event in Zalau on Monday, where the projects and public policies for supporting SMEs in the digital economy were debated, with the participation of representatives of local public authorities in Salaj, of CNIPMMR member employers and decentralized public services from the North-West region.