After optimistic data from August and September, when job offers were close to their pre-pandemic levels with only 7% decrease, the last two months have seen a decline again. In November alone, announcements for new openings fell by 20%, and..
A government project has been prepared, providing for workers on unpaid leave to receive daily aid. The compensation will apply to sectors that have been temporarily restricted in their operations due to Covid-19. Workers will have the right to use..
No zero academic year envisaged: Education minister “There will not be a zero academic year over the coronavirus epidemic,” said Minister of Education Krasimir Valchev for bTV. In his words extending the school year into summer will be one..
189,000 people have found a job since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy data show. After the first version of the 60/40 employment aid scheme in the March-June period, more than 9,000 employers were..
In September and October 564 employers presented more than 4,000 available jobs at labour exchanges, National Employment Agency data show. According to the National Statistical Institute (NSI), the number of newly registered unemployed during..
“Despite the blow the tourist industry suffered due to Covid-19, 29,000 jobs in Bulgaria have been saved,” said Minister of Tourism Mariyana Nikolova in Plovdiv. Minister Nikolova paid a visit to Plovdiv on the occasion of the start of the..
Despite the Covid-19 crisis, since the beginning of 2020, certificates to 22 projects totaling 363 million euros have been issued under the Investment Promotion Act, as they have the potential to create 3203 new jobs. This was announced by the..
Businesses have insisted on a freeze on the minimum wage next year and forecast a severe economic crisis in the coming months. The chairman of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce Radosvet Radev told BNR that the beginning of the crisis is yet to come...
67% of the money the state has paid out to employers has been to preserve jobs during the state of emergency declared on 13 March, 2020, and was targeted at the economic sectors hit hardest by the pandemic. These are the processing..
After a temporary drop, for the second consecutive week the number of persons newly registered as unemployed in Bulgaria exceeds the number of those who found new jobs through state-run employment agencies - respectively 5,100 and a little over 4,000..
