Employment

Fire-damaged firms can suspend employees, ministry clarifies

Private companies whose premises were fully or partially destroyed in wildfires can suspend employment contracts with their employees while workplaces are being repaired, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security has said, noting that the suspensions cannot last more than three months.

Bulgaria: Changes in the Labor Code will Limit the Ability of the Boss to Seek the Worker on Off Days

The boss will not have the right to seek the worker on weekends through emails and messages on social networks. This will apply to those who work from home. The change was proposed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and is part of a whole package of amendments to the Labor Code, which were published for public consultation, bTV reported.

Law will regulate flexible jobs

A draft law that will be submitted to the Greek Parliament in September seeks to regulate flexible types of employment such as zero-hours contracts, where the employer is not obliged to provide a minimum number of working hours to an employee. 

These practices already exist, they are just unregulated.

Hoteliers struggling to find workers amid labor shortage

Although tourism activity has rebounded with the COVID-19 pandemic-related troubles put behind, the industry is now facing another problem: Labor shortage.

Turkish hoteliers are trying to overcome this problem by hiring workers from other nations, such as Turkic countries and even from Indonesia, even though this costs them more.

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