170,000 jobs can be preserved by measure 60/40, under which the state pays employers 60% of the salaries and social insurances of their staff so that they are not fired in the crisis.
When asked in parliament, the Minister of Social Affairs Denitsa Sacheva answered that if the current rate of incoming applications to the Employment Agency was preserved and their approval rate remained within 70%, the aid would reach about 170,000 employees. A total of 92 million euros are needed for two-month support, and about 137 million for three months of aid.
Staff shortages are worsening as more hotels and restaurants open in coastal resorts and staff demand better conditions and pay, according to Pavlin Kossev, chairman of the Varna branch of the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association. This is..
On Thursday, after the expected overnight precipitation in the morning, the minimum temperatures will be 10 to 15°C. In Sofia it will be around 11°. Clouds will be more frequent during the day. In some places, especially in southwestern Bulgaria and in..
A draft law has been prepared with the aim of regulating the relations along the entire chain from food producers to buyers. It proposes markup limits, to which both producers and traders would be entitled, announced Bulgaria’s Minister of..
EUR 87 million under the operational programme Transport Connectivity, earmarked for the Russe-Veliko Tarnovo motorway is being redirected to the Europe..
Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States Georgi Panayotov and Raycho Raychev, founder and CEO of the Bulgarian company EnduroSat , met with experts..
The prehistoric complex "Provadiya-Solnitsata" - the oldest salt production and urban centre in Europe (5600 - 4350 BC) - is among the sites nominated..
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