Bulgaria is not a center of attraction for foreign specialists. Only a hundred foreigners come to work with the blue card job solution each. This is shown by Eurostat statistics, quoted by the chairman of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tsvetan Simeonov at the press conference of employers’ organizations. They have greatly facilitated the employment of foreigners in Bulgaria

According to the data in the period from 2012 to 2020, only 1,040 specialists from abroad were attracted to Bulgaria. According to Eurostat alone, in 2020, 12,000 non-European citizens will receive a blue card, which allows them to live and work in the EU. 75% of the authorization comes from France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal. Germany is looking for over 1 million specialists

For another year, the business reports a systemic shortage of skilled workers. At the European level, the lack of labor is the number one problem, while in Bulgaria it ranks third after the high prices of energy and raw materials, employers say. Bulgaria: We are looking for people to work

Tsvetan Simeonov is looking for the adult education system, which is currently not working. In the union the percentage of those who study at a high age is 9.6%, while in Bulgaria it is only 1.6. Among the most vulnerable on the labor market in our country are the young. The share of unemployed youth is 20%, compared to 15% in the EU. Graduates not only do not study in their professional field, but they do not lack work disciplines and communication skills.

The dispute over the maximum insurance threshold

Employers want lower growth in maximum insurance income. “We have raised the minimum pension from populism to the median level and more than half of pensioners will receive the same pension regardless of their social security contributions. In the same way, the minimum wage is accepted as social assistance. The minimum wage is the wage and it must be worked out. “, believes the chairman of the Association of Industrial Capital in Bulgaria Vasil Velev. BICA wants to remove the minimum pension and maternity

According to me, at the moment nearly 200,000 people in the country receive a maximum insurance income of over BGN 3,000. For their maximum pension it amounts to BGN 1,620. Increasing the maximum salary to BGN 3,400, as discussed, will make the maximum pension BGN 1,800. EU, we must pay, not increase wages, Velev said.

Employers’ organizations want the TEMC decisions to be dropped. According to the chairman of the Association of Industrial Capital, Vasil Velev is a universal document leading to 30 privileges, and hence the reason for corrupt practices. TEMC decisions must support the integration of people with residual capacity into the labor market. Instead, healthy people are licensed for the disabled in order to receive privileges, Velev added. The business wants not one, but 3 days of sick leave not to be paid