Romania's new foreign-worker regime turned the employer from a bystander in an approval process into a party with continuing legal duties - before, during and after the employment relationship. The penalties are calculated per worker. Here is the compliance path, in the order you will walk it, and the one thing that most often separates a company that is sanctioned from one that is not. In the months ahead, two Romanian companies will hire the same workers, in the same sector, under the same law. One will be sanctioned. One will not. The difference will rarely be luck. It will be whether the company understood, in time, where its obligations were - and acted before a gap became a penalty. That is the whole story of Government Emergency Ordinance no. 32/2026 on the access of foreigners to t