Employment

According to data released by the Greek Labour Ministry, 126,956 workers are paid a gross salary of 100 Euros per month!

Qualified workers rank first this year in the top 10 sought after jobs, followed by engineers, drivers, and restaurant and hotel employees, showed data from the annual survey of the shortage of talent carried out by ManpowerGroup Bulgaria.

More than 1.5 million small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) are now able to hire temporary workers rather than employ permanent workers due to a new regulation enacted as part of a controversial flexible labor act, daily Habertürk reported Oct. 14. 

Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said it was normal that questions not relevant to evaluating the level of knowledge or competence of teachers are posted to them in their job interviews. 

Reduced working hours or even suspension, with the state paying unemployment benefit and covering workers' social security while they are not working, are the proposals of a panel of experts on labor issues.

Bulgaria's education system is facing budget difficulties and a severe cadre crisis due to the retirement of teachers.

Since the beginning of 2016, 7,700 teachers have retired and this number is expected to grow to 10,000 by the end of the year. Initial expectations were for fewer than half this number of teachers to retire in 2016.

The National Revenue Agency has started inspections of 1,900 employers in Sofia a significant number of whose employees receive the minimum monthly wage.

Workers at closed Cherno More mine, in the region of Burgas, blocked on Tuesday morning the road between Burgas and the resort of Slanchev Bryag (Sunny Beach) to protest against the delay in payment of wages and compensations.

Work at the mine ended earlier in April, leaving its workforce of nearly 300 people without jobs and with unpaid salaries for March.

Performance Management in the Gig Economy

Unemployment decreased by 0.1% on a monthly basis in March of this year and 1.1% year-on-year, data from Bulgaria's labor agency shows.

The Agency for Employment says that 28 063 people found a job in March, 4502 more than the number of jobs added in February.