CFR-SA’s interest in insuring the necessary labor force

Following the SNCFR reorganization and planned and not planned losses in personnel, the Human Resources Department at CNCF – CFR SA was and still is involved in recruiting, training and hiring medium trained personnel, according to the company’s requests. Noticing the fact that the labor force is larger than the estimated necessary for the company, and training for the personnel is taking up important funding from the budget, since CNCF-CFR SA got started HRU (Human Resources Department) initiated training programs for workers through qualification courses for specific jobs for our activities. The courses are intended to increase the exigency in recruiting applicants and, implicitly, new employees. They are also intended to reduce the costs for their qualification.

HRU promoted in the administrative board of the company rules that got approved. The courses now recruit applicants outside the company structure, as well as financing their training with funds that were given to unemployed workers on a contractual basis by DGMPS or by applicants on a schooling contact basis.

Since the company got started, out of 2894 graduates from qualification courses, 1595 were trained on a schooling contract basis and 53 on a contract with DGMPS, giving a total of 1648 applicants. 738 of them are already employed the rest - 910 are about to be employed. A reserve was kept to cover the personnel fluctuation. 200 are presently undergoing qualification courses, on a schooling contract.

We would be telling less that the whole truth if what we mentioned about insuring the necessary work force would not be accompanied by the fact that HRU is constantly developing courses for training work force at the Qualification Center and another seven qualification centers throughout the country. Thus only contiguous instruction programs include every year over 30 000 workers and the following six months, through re-conversion 819 line inspectors will become barrier keepers. The quality of the training is guaranteed by the over 300 instructors and lectors recruited from the company’s specialists and trained through special courses for adult instruction methodology. CFR-SA is aware of the importance of securing a good training for future employees, and as such it promoted with the Transport Ministry an act that requests the former educational network of CFR be returned to the Ministry’s structure.

This initiative was happily finalized by a protocol concluded between the Transport Ministry and the National Education Ministry, regarding “ partnership in organizing and unfolding pre-university education and contiguous training of adults for transportation positions,” registered under No. 631/2000 that created a possibility for CFR-SA to get involved in modernizing materials for pre-university education network for the railway industry.

It will also serve to issue the law of trades and specialization and elaborating specific professional standards and setting the basis for schooling programs for these educational units.

Reporting Gabriel Vaduva