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Bulgaria preserves employment amid Covid-19 pandemic

In the second quarter of 2020, Bulgaria was among the less affected countries from job losses or reduction of working hours, Eurostat announced.

Less than 10% of the Bulgarian workers were temporarily made redundant or had to work less hours between April and June this year. Between 2% and 3.5% of the employees lost their job due to closure of businesses because of the coronavirus crisis.

Italy, Greece and Ireland are the EU countries which have been most severely affected by temporary redundancies or reduction of working hours.

Spain, Ireland and Italy have dismissed highest number of workers during the crisis. Eurostat places Bulgaria among the five EU countries with lowest risk of job loss due to coronavirus crisis, investor.bg. informs.




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