restructure

Romanian low-cost airline operator Blue Air gave up five of its 11 planes and sacked 300 of its 800 employees, within a restructuring process that is due to end on November 1, said Gheorghe Racaru, strategy and development manager of the group Blue Air is part of.

Romania’s Government decided to reduce by 25% the total number of positions within youth and sports bodies subordinated to the Education Ministry, by merging sports and youth county structures and restructuring the National Authority for Sports (ANS).

Romanian government agencies which were not created on the basis of European Union directives or through organic laws will be converted into ministry departments, while public bodies under the authority of ministries will be directed by a single structure.

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc urged the ministers to begin the procedures to restructure the public bodies they lead, pointing out that this process, which could include layoffs, can be initiated through emergency decrees, if the law allows it, people close to the matter told MEDIAFAX.