AmCham asks for educational system connected to reality and labor market flexibility

The American Chamber of Commerce in Romania (AmCham Romania), which has recently organized a round table on labor issues, has asked for a sound education system, connected to the economic and social realities. “This will ensure a competitive human capital, able to deal with the changes of a changing economy and more sophisticated demands regarding performance and competence standards,” writes the AmCham in a statement. The Romanian Labor minister Mihai Seitan attended AmCham's round table. He emphasized the already initiated revision of the legislation, whose completion is estimated for the end of 2010, the reform of the social assistance system, which in its current form increased the passive labor force, as well as the institutional restructuring in the sense of building flexibility, increasing their capacity to adapt to the labor market dynamics and reducing bureaucracy. State Secretary Oana Badea of the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports also attended the meeting. “If the education system succeeds in formulating properly the content of initial formation, a fundamental component of the reform will be solved” she said. AmCham Romania, through its Labor, Human Resources and Education Committee militates for maintaining the human capital at the center of the country’s economic repositioning, along with firm measures for economic recovery, modernization of the fiscal system and a responsible behavior of decision makers.