Mass Layoffs in Praid: the Entire Tourist Region Is in Serious Trouble Due to the Flooded Salt Mine
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Salina Praid will lose 60 employees in November 2026, after the National Salt Society notified the County Agency for the Occupation of the Labour Force (AJOMM) Harghita about the reduction of staff. All those targeted by dismissals were working in the underground mine, which no longer works for more than a year after it was flooded by the waters of Corund River.
The Romanian National Salt Industry Company (Salrom) will lay off 60 miners working in the flooded Prajdi salt mine in November. Due to the decrease in the number of visitors, the operation of the wellness center in the Székelyföld settlement, which was previously visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists annually, is also in jeopardy.
60 out of 125 are leaving, as the workers in the salt mine, which was flooded in the summer of 2025, have mostly been on furlough ever since.
Since the mine collapse, most of the workers have been on forced leave, and most of them now have to look for new jobs, presumably in another city.
A total of 60 Salina Praid employees will be available this month.
A year and a half after the flood that destroyed the salt mine in Prajd, locals are facing another difficult situation: 60 of the mine’s 125 employees will lose their jobs at the end of November. The mass layoffs primarily affect miners working underground, whose employment opportunities in the region are extremely limited. The consequences of the 2025 mine disaster are still being felt, and in Prajd, the state of emergency has been declared aga…
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