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Hotel and restaurant business attract highest number of third-country nationals

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Only 861 third-country nationals have been entitled to seasonal employment up to 90 days since the beginning of 2020, which is 10% of all third-country nationals entitled to seasonal employment last year, Monitor daily reports, based on information from the National Employment Agency. 399 third-country nationals were hired after the end of the state of emergency until June 5, 2020. Most of them are directed to the hotel and restaurant business. 551 nationals of Ukraine, 64 citizens of Turkmenistan and 56 Moldovan nationals applied for seasonal jobs in Bulgaria. In recent years, most of the third-country nationals searching for jobs at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast were citizens of Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Russia, North Macedonia, Kyrgizstan, Armenia and Albania.




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