About 400 employees were transferred to Ericsson Romania in January, following a five-year partnership agreement between the two companies.
RomTelecom said the employees that will be sacked will receive severance payments worth double the amount set in the collective labor contract, adding payments could near EUR14,000, depending on seniority.
Unionists of RomTelecom, majority owned by Greece’s OTE, protested for two hours in front of the company’s headquarters on Saturday, disgruntled with the company’s plan to sack 600 employees early May.
Romania’s union confederation Cartel Alfa, to which public administration unions are affiliated, said Friday in a press release it will join protests on Saturday, arguing the demands voiced by RomTelecom unionists fully observe valid laws.
RomTelecom employees set off protests a week ago and picketed the company’s regional offices countrywide.
The vice-president of telecom unions federation Doru Dancus said mid-February that unionists are displeased with the company’s plan to sack 600 employees this year without any prior talks whatsoever with unionists.
Romtelecom operates approximately 3 million phone lines in Romania and had a little over 10,000 employees at the end of 2009.