The purpose of the INFORMIA II [1] research project was to study the impact of the recast of the European Union’s Directive on information and consultation [2]. It also aimed to look at the links between national and European level in this context in a number of EU Member States and candidate
The conference was the final step of the project INFORMIA [1] (Improvement of the process of workplace information and consultation [2] for better employees’ and workers’ representation in Europe). It was promoted by the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB [3]) and funded
In February 2010, management and trade unions at Carlsberg Bulgaria [1] signed an additional agreement for a social plan as an annex to the company-level collective agreement, which has been in operation since 2009. The plan generally addresses social support and assistance for the employees. [1]
In February 2010, management and trade unions at Carlsberg Bulgaria [1] signed an additional agreement for a social plan as an annex to the company-level collective agreement, which has been in operation since 2009. The plan generally addresses social support and assistance for the employees. [1]
The Turkish construction company Mapa Cengiz, which is involved in the construction of the ‘Lyulin’ motorway close to Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia and the town of Pernik in western Bulgaria, has worked for about a year and a half without observing the country’s labour legislation. The motorway
While the situation in the global and European economy are among the main factors influencing the economic crisis in Bulgaria, the effects of a number of domestic problems are also significant. Among them are the large debts being faced by some enterprises, along with the incomplete restructuring [1
In January 2009, the Institute for Social and Trade Union Research (Институтът за синдикални и социални изследвания, ISTUR [1]) published the results of a survey conducted in 23 Bulgarian subsidiaries of multinational companies; the study was made possible with the financial support of the German
A seminar on ‘Social dialogue in the EU: practices and perspectives for the new Member States’ was organised in Sofia on 11 April 2008 by the Bulgarian Economic and Social Council and LASAIRE (Laboratoire social d’action, d'’innovation et d’échanges) (http://www.lasaire.net/), a French think-tank
On 4 July 2007, the Vitosha Research Agency [1] and Industry Watch [2] presented the main findings of their national survey (in Bulgarian, 2.4Mb PowerPoint presentation) [3] on employers’ skilled labour demands for the period 2008–2010. The survey was commissioned by the Ministry of Labour and
The consultative Economic and Social Council (ESC [1]) was established in September 2003 on the basis of a law passed by parliament in April 2001 and revised in 2003 (BG0401202N [2]). The ESC, which started operations in December 2003, consists of three main groups - nationally representative