Up to 90 days of unpaid leave will be considered part of contributory service in the retirement scheme in 2021. This was decided by the Parliament at second reading with amendments to the State of Emergency Act. In this way, people who are on unpaid leave due to the pandemic will be able not to lose their right to a pension or unemployment benefits due to interruption of service and employers will be able to keep them longer at work, BTA reported.
Because of the coronavirus crisis, the government has already extended the period for unpaid leave twice, as previous to 2020 allowed unpaid leave was 30 days.
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign affairs advised Bulgarian citizens to avoid travelling to the Democratic Republic of Congo, especially to the eastern parts of the country, including the city of Goma in North Kivu Province and the city of Bukavu in..
Five authors and four translators will be residents at the Sofia Literature and Translation House in 2025, the organizers announced. A resident at Sofia Literature and Translation House will be Natalia Matolinets, a novelist and short..
200 Bulgarian students between the ages of 11 and 15 will be able to attend NASA space camps in Turkey this summer. Dilyana Georgieva, programme manager of the Space Camp Türkiye 2025 programme, told Radio Varna. The competition for participation is..
Navigation Maritime Bulgare (Navibulgar) is conducting its own investigation into the case involving the Vezhen ship, announced Navibulgar CEO Captain..
The Bulgarian Union of Balneology and SPA Tourism is organizing a round table on the topic "Bulgaria in Schengen - Challenges and Opportunities for..
MP Venko Sabrutev from PP-DB told BNT that the convergence report is the document that will determine whether Bulgaria is ready for the..
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