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White collar work and the medical sector in Great Britain are witnessing a boost from Romanian workers as the country’s popularity increases
Despite ongoing restrictions on Romanians entering the UK workplace, white collar sectors such as business, financial services and research, as well as food processing and leisure, are seeing an influx from Romanian labour.
But for the first three months of 2008, the greatest number of work permits for Romanians were distributed for the health and medical services.
The Romanian young, educated and high income demographics favour the UK as the number one destination of choice to work, according to a survey by the National Association of Offices for Counselling Citizens last November. Even though Italy and Spain remain the top destinations overall, more Romanians are preferring Great Britain to Germany.
Countries such as Spain have benefited from 10,000s of Romanians in their fruit-picking businesses, but the British authorities released last year only 7,295 ‘permits’ to Romanians and Bulgarians for seasonal agricultural labour.
“There are opportunities available to Romanian and to Bulgarian nationals to work in the seasonal agricultural sector,” says British Ambassador to Bucharest Robin Barnett.
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