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Factsheet for measure RO-2023-40/3387 – measures in Romania
Country | Romania , applies nationwide |
Time period | Temporary, 01 October 2023 – 01 January 2028 |
Context | Digital Transformation, European Semester |
Type | Other initiatives or policies |
Category |
Promoting the economic, labour market and social recovery into a green future
– Active labour market policies (enhancing employability, training, subsidised job creation, etc.) |
Author | Victoria Stoiciu, Nicoleta Voicu (Association Center for Public Innovation) and Eurofound |
Measure added | 05 November 2023 (updated 11 December 2023) |
The bonus will be granted as a result of negotiations that took place between trade unions and the Government following the teachers' strike in May-June 2023. At least 326,000 employees from the education sector will receive the career bonus.
The Emergency Ordinance introduced bonuses for both teaching and auxiliary teaching staff and non-teaching staff in state education. The funds can be used to cover specific individual teaching needs.
The teaching career bonus can be used for the following categories of expenditure: professional training courses and other categories of related expenditure; IT equipment and other similar information technology teaching equipment; specialty books and other similar categories of expenditure; up to 30% of the nominal amount of the career development grant for specific teaching needs of teachers.
Teaching (in pre-university and higher education) and non-teaching staff will receive a teaching career bonus starting with October 2023, after they proved that they have been active during the school year. The amount received by each teaching staff is RON 1,500 (approx. €300) and by non-teaching staff is RON 500 (approx. €100). According to the previsions of the legislative act, teachers and auxiliary teachers in state pre-university and university education who have been working in the 2022-2023 school year will receive the teaching career bonus.
The teaching career bonus will be granted in a single installment, i.e. in October 2023, and may be used in the school year 2023-2024. The teaching career bonus is also granted for the following school/university years, i.e. from school/university years 2023/2024 to school/university year 2026/2027, to support the teaching career of teaching staff in the state pre-university and university education system. Non-teaching staff will be entitled to a professional career bonus for professional training courses and other necessary expenditure incurred in support of educational activity, to support teaching activity in both the university and pre-university education systems.
The necessary funds for the teaching and professional career bonus is provided from non-reimbursable external funds through the Education and Employment Program, programming period 2021-2027, within the limit of existing funds available for this purpose.
More than 326,000 employees from the education sector will receive the career bonus.
Workers | Businesses | Citizens |
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Particular professions
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Sector specific set of companies
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Does not apply to citizens |
Actors | Funding |
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National government
Trade unions |
European Funds
National funds |
Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:
Trade unions | Employers' organisations | |
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Role | Agreed (outcome) incl. social partner initiative | Unknown |
Form | Direct consultation outside a formal body | Not applicable |
Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:
The measure is a result of the general strike in the education system that took place in the spring and summer of 2023. The involvement was demanded by the trade unions from the education sector as a result of the protests which started in May 2023. The main request of the trade unions was to increase of the salaries which shall be granted by the end of the year. Also, the unions asked for a normative act according to which a beginner teacher will have a salary at least equal to the average gross.
The representatives of the trade unions from the education sector accepted the measures which includes beside the €300 as career bonus and a 25% pay rise from 1 June 2023, with the first tranche of the pay rise on the new scale being 50% from 1 January 2024.
This case is sector-specific (only public sector)
Economic area | Sector (NACE level 2) |
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P - Education | P85 Education |
This case is occupation-specific
Occupation (ISCO level 2) |
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Teaching professionals |
Citation
Eurofound (2023), Training bonus for teachers, measure RO-2023-40/3387 (measures in Romania), EU PolicyWatch, Dublin, https://static.eurofound.europa.eu/covid19db/cases/RO-2023-40_3387.html
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