Average number of employees in the year of reference represents a simple arithmetic mean, resulting from the sum of the daily numbers of employees (excluding those whose work contract / work relations were suspended) from the year of reference – including the weekends, legal holidays and other non-working days – divided to the total number of calendar days (365 days).
Employee – the person carrying out an activity based on an individual work contract with the employer in exchange for remuneration in the form of salary in money and/or in kind.
Job vacancies include the number of paid jobs, newly created, unoccupied or which are to become vacant, for which:
- employer is taking active steps to find a suitable candidate (examples: notifying the job vacancy to the employment services, advertising through newspapers, media, Internet, direct contact with possible candidates, using internships etc.);
- employer wants immediate employment or within a specific period of time, established by the employer. The specific period of time refers to the maximum period required to fill the vacant position.
Are considered job vacancies the jobs meant for persons outside the units (but on which can also compete people from inside the unit), regardless of their definite or indefinite duration, full or part time program.
The following unoccupied positions are not considered job vacancies:
- positions intended exclusively for the promotion of internal staff;
- positions blocked by a legal or regulatory act.
The positions occupied by people who are absent for a certain period of time (maternity leave, child care leave, medical leave, leave without pay, other absences) are considered vacant, if the employer wishes the substitution for a definite (temporary) period and if he takes active steps to find candidates.
Number of employees by the end of the year represents the number of persons existing in the unit on the very last day of the year, employed with individual work contract / work relations for a determined or undetermined period of time (including seasonal workers, manager/administrator), who have worked or who were not able to fulfil their work duties because being on a sick leave, maternity leave, child care leave, annual leave, unpaid leave, benefiting from free time provided by law or set according to the work collective contract or those who have been furloughed, on strike, etc. The employees delegated to work abroad and those who are cumulating more jobs are not covered, as well as those who do not have their main work within the reporting unit.
The job vacancy rate is the ratio of the number of job vacancies to the total number of posts (occupied and vacant), expressed as a percentage.