{"id":6449,"date":"2025-08-25T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:00:24","slug":"almost-40-of-romanian-employees-earn-not-much-above-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6449","title":{"rendered":"Almost 40% of Romanian employees earn not much above minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the number of employees paid the minimum wage in Romania is only 1.06 million (-3.6% y\/y), accounting for 16% of the total number of labour contracts, the number of employees earning just above the minimum gross wage (RON 4,050 &#8211; 4,100 or around EUR 800) was 1.63 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/eveniment\/misterele-salariului-minim-pe-economie-oficial-16-dintre-angajati-22886614\" target=\"_blank\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a>, based on data obtained from the Labor Ministry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the share of Romanians earning the minimum wage or just above it is in fact 2.6 million, or above 39% of the total, according to the daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the emergency ordinance 142\/2021, which entered into force on January 1, 2024, no employer can maintain an employee on the minimum wage for more than two years, regardless of whether they work full-time or part-time.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Aaron Amat\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the number of employees paid the minimum wage in Romania is only 1.06 million (-3.6% y\/y), accounting for 16% of the total number of labour contracts, the number of employees earning just above the minimum gross wage (RON 4,050 &#8211; 4,100 or around EUR 800) was 1.63 million, according to Ziarul Financiar, based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}