New wave of voluntary redundancies at Dacia. How much money do employees who choose to leave receive
The Dacia Automobile plant in Mioveni will start, starting on March 1, the first campaign of collective voluntary departures this year, in the context of the acceleration of the robotization process and the planned reduction of production. Employees have already been informed about both the timing of layoffs and the compensatory amounts they can receive in the event of a voluntary resignation.
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According to the information confirmed by the company and published by Profit.ro, the severance premiums are differentiated according to seniority in the factory. Thus, employees with up to 2 years of service who want to leave will be able to receive 25,000 lei net, to which are added the daily salary rights. For those with 2-4 years of experience, the amount reaches 63,000 lei, and for employees with 4-8 years, the compensation is 113,000 lei. The highest amounts are awarded to employees with over 16 years of experience, who can collect up to 210,000 lei.
A special category, made up of employees with occupational diseases or disabilities from work accidents, will receive the largest amount, 240,000 lei, the equivalent of almost 50,000 euros.
The amounts allocated by Automobile Dacia SA, a company owned by Renault Group, were negotiated with the Dacia Automobile Union (SAD) and will be granted together with the salaries for the month of February.
Applications to enter the collective redundancies program must be submitted in February, to be reviewed by plant managers.
Normally, according to the results of previous campaigns, several hundred requests are registered, but only half are approved.
“We do not approve any request to leave, it is up to the heads of departments to approve or not”explained Mihai Bordeanu, Dacia general manager, for Profit.ro.
Unofficial information indicates that up to 900 employees could leave Dacia in the current campaign, amid the company's plans to reduce production in 2026, in the context of falling car demand and the pressures generated by the new emissions targets on the Renault group.
“The management communicated to us during the first meetings on the new collective labor agreement that they intend to reduce the production of vehicles starting from January. It is about an impact of 165 vehicles per day, a situation that will lead to a staff reduction of about 900 people”, said union leader Viorel Ungureanu, at the time of the start of negotiations for the new collective labor contract.
The Dacia plant still has approximately 11,000 employees, although the degree of robotization has reached approximately 60%, with 550 active industrial robots in 2025.
Comparatively, the Renault plant in Seoul operates with far fewer employees and more robots, but produces significantly fewer cars than the Mioveni plant.
