In 2025, th e minimum monthly salary should go up to BGN 1,080 BGN (EUR 542), said Lyuboslav Kostov, Chief Economist at the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB). He participated in a conference entitled "The EU Minimum..
The National Council for Tripartite Cooperation meets today to discuss the state budget, the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund and the budget of the State Social Security for 2024. The meeting will be chaired by Deputy Prime..
At the beginning of today’s cabinet sitting, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov commented that the decision to raise the minimum salary as of 1 January is one of the most important decisions in the work on the national budget for 2024. The minimum..
The National Assembly adopted at second reading amendments to the Labour Code . The MPs decided that the minimum wage should be 50% of the average salary in the country. According to the amendments, the amount of the minimum salary..
Representatives of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) called on the MPs to submit a draft budget for 2023 , increase the minimum monthly salary from EUR 363 to EUR 435 euros and introduce a minimum tax-exempt..
A major strike organized by trade unions blocked the whole of Belgium a day ago and the situation in neighboring Greece is similar. Thousands of people protested there demanding wage rise. In Greece, the minimum monthly salary is 713 euros, but inflation..
The two largest trade unions in Bulgaria, the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) and the Confederation of Labor "Podkrepa", objected the 2023 draft budget announced by the caretaker Minister of Finance ...
The leaders of "We Continue the Change" Kiril Petkov and Assen Vassilev said they would not participate in a government formed on the mandate of GERB. If the government-forming mandate is later handed over to another political force, including..
As of 1 January, 2023, the minimum salary will be calculated on the basis of a formula, instead of being calculated administratively. The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy presented, to businesses and TUs, three different options of the..
We are not planning to introduce more stringent measures on a national level to contain the spread of coronavirus , Bulgaria’s Minister of Labor and Social Policy Denitsa Sacheva said for BTV. However, we are ready to take any decisions according to..
