Labor

For the tenth consecutive year, Bulgaria is the last in the European Union in pay of overtime work. In 2018 an average of 5.5 euros was paid for an extra hour of work, according to data from the European Statistics Agency Eurostat.

BELGRADE - The migrant crisis is absolutely under government control in Serbia, the Ministry of Labor State Secretary Nenad Ivanisevic said Friday, adding that Serbia will deal with migrant smugglers in a clear way.

BELGRADE - The migrant crisis is absolutely under government control in Serbia, the Ministry of Labor State Secretary Nenad Ivanisevic said Friday, adding that Serbia will deal with migrant smugglers in a clear way.

A trade union official has noted that Bulgaria's education system is not ready to work with migrant children.

Speaking at a roundtable dedicated to the migrant crisis, Yanka Takeva, who heads a teachers' trade union (part of union confederation CITUB), has warned of "double standards" about state support for migrants and Bulgarian adults which "leave society divided."

Let’s be honest, most of us would prefer to not work a day or night job. We would probably like to lounge and relax without a care in the world and just enjoy the good things in life. But, that’s not how the world works, unfortunately, as those bills have to be paid somehow.

Friday witnessed the first pension reductions mandated by the third memorandum, which was negotiated and sent for ratification to Parliament this month by the outgoing SYRIZA government.

The chairperson of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (KNSB) Plamen Dimitrov expects tensions in many sectors of the economy to occur in the autumn.

This could result in the staging of protests and strikes, Dimitrov said on Saturday, Darik radio informs.

Leaders of the union of pensioners' associations in Bosnia's Federation entity will meet next week to decide the date for protests against worsening living standards, the vice-president of the union, Mehmedalija Rapa, said.

Rapa said that up to 35,000 pensioners are expected to join the protests, expected sometime in the latter half of September.

MasterCard has said it will outsource part of its business from its office in Peterborough, in the UK to Bulgaria and the Philippines.

UK-based Peterborough Telegraph quoted a company spokesperson as saying that "?in alignment with other MasterCard business functions we are outsourcing an element of our business to both Bulgaria and the Philippines."

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Economy Minister George Stathakis are continuing their meetings with Greece’s quartet of creditors from the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The goal is to surpass obstacles by August 11 for a positive recommendation on a new multi-billion-euro loan for Greece.