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The adopter or one of the adopting parents may opt between three months adjustment leave and a monthly 800 lei (EUR1=RON4.2171) stipend, or a quarter reduction in work hours, with the same salary, covered entirely by the employer, according to a proposed amendment to the Romanian law on adoptions.

Romanian unionists in the public sector threatened to sue the Government if the employees in the sector are forced to take ten days off without pay.

The 2,500 people engaged in construction works on Transylvania Highway, linking central Brasov to western Bors in Romania, will be sent on leave during the winter holidays, but the activity will be resumed on January 5, 2009 unless US constructor Bechtel is considering massive layoffs.