One of the largest trade unions in the country - the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria, held a protest under the slogan "Let's protect incomes from inflation and jobs from the crisis". Activists blocked the traffic on the..
Inflation has outpaced wage growth in almost all sectors of the Bulgarian economy and consumer prices have risen by 10% year-on-year. These are part of the conclusions in an analysis by the Institute for Market Economy. Average..
27% of working Bulgarians or 840,000 people cannot afford a one-week holiday. Over 38 million people in Europe cannot afford a week’s holiday , despite being in work, indicate data of a survey conducted by the European Trade..
Today we mark the International Workers Day, also known as Labor Day. According to Dimitar Manolov, President of the Confederation of Labor Podkrepa, the war in Ukraine, inflation and the energy crisis are the biggest challenges for the Bulgarian..
The Institute for Market Economics reports that the highest salaries in Bulgaria are in small municipalities with large employers for another consecutive year. Leading are the municipalities in Sreda Gora region, on the territory of which there is a..
In 2020, women in Bulgaria received averagely 12.7% lower salaries than men. Women in this country are usually working in lower-paid sectors and in 2019 the difference in average salary was 14.1%, according to data of the CITUB..
Bulgaria’s trade unions welcome the decision of the authorities to allocate more money for social polcicies between the first and the second reading of the 2022 state budget. Meanwhile , however, they are calling on them to allocate..
In 2022, Bulgaria is expected to receive the first tranche under the Recovery and Resilience Plan to the tune of to EUR 1.6 billon , this country’s Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance Assen Vassilev said in an interview for the BNR. In..
The prices of food products, services, fuels are growing at a faster pace compared to the increase in wages, according to an express study of CITUB. Since the beginning of the year, natural gas has risen in price by 158%, the increase in electricity..
The shortage of staff will lead to a massive increase in wages in the second half of the year . This is one of the conclusions of the study "Salaries and additional benefits - trends" of ManpowerGroup Bulgaria. Almost half (49%) of the 513 employers..
