Migrant workers

Bulgaria and Georgia signed an Agreement on Regulation of Labor Migration. The document was signed by the Minister of Labor and Social Policy Biser Petkov and and his Georgian counterpart, Ekaterine Tikaradze in Tbilisi today. The purpose of the document is to create an additional opportunity to provide workers for sectors of the economy where there is a labor shortage.

The total number of migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million this year, posting an increase of 51 million since 2010, according to data released by the United Nations on Tuesday.

Police in the French city of Strasbourg have evacuated an illegal migrant camp from eastern Europe, located on the southern outskirts of the city.

According to the authorities, the camp had 134 adults and 74 children, mostly citizens of the former Soviet Union and the Balkan Peninsula.

In an effort to respond to the demands of citizens over the migration issue, Turkey primarily will address the irregular migrant case, said the interior minister on July 6.

Around 10 percent or one in 10 Bulgarians are working hard physical labor, according to data from Eurostat's analysis of labor conditions in EU countries in 2017
According to the analysis, about 28 per cent of the Bulgarians work in the same way (28 per cent) in moderate physical effort, while another 34 per cent work in a sitting position.

By Wednesday, April 24, all salary workers in the private sector should have been paid their Easter bonus, according to law. This payment is roughly half the amount of the Christmas bonus. As the Labor Ministry clarified on Friday, the holiday bonuses cannot be replaced by commodities and can only be in cash of credit.

Nonprofit organization Generation 2.0 for Rights, Equality and Diversity has set up an observatory to monitor the working conditions of migrant workers in the rural area of Manolada in the northwestern Peloponnese.

The group supports second-generation migrant children in Greece.

Human rights and migrant welfare groups are urging Greece to scrap its part of a deal between the European Union and Turkey, designed to reduce unchecked migration to Europe from the east.

A big group of Central Americans has agreed to push toward Mexico City from a coastal state Monday, planning to exit a part of the country that has long been treacherous for migrants seeking to get to the United States.

"We are on the right track to an agreement," deputy labor minister Stanisław Szwed told the Polish Press Agency. "I hope that in the fall we will be able to secure at least a provisional agreement." He added that a provisional draft of the agreement would be sent by the Philippine authorities.