Dual vocational education and training (VET), introduced by law in 2015, has been piloted in some professions and VET schools in Bulgaria since the start of the 2015–2016 academic year. The scheme, supported by the social partners, aims to address the lack of qualified labour and to help meet the
A national alliance of unions and civil organisations in Bulgaria has criticised recommendations on pension reforms and the minimum wage contained in the European Commission's Annual Growth Survey. The alliance argues that more accurate economic data is needed and that the period of the European
In 2009, in the context of the introduction of a single status for blue-collar and white-collar workers (LU0809019I [1]), the Government of Luxembourg declared the management of absenteeism a priority and invited social partners to investigate ways to reduce absenteeism. A high-level group of