Bulgarian Employers Cry Foul at Social Security Tweak
Thursday, 01 January 1970
Registered organizations of Bulgarian employers raised a univocal outcry at plans on the part of cabinet to raise the payments for retirement by 3%.
The proposed change, announced by PM Boyko Borisov Tuesday afternoon, is expected to be signed just hours after that.
In their joint statement, the employers' and industrialists' organizations state they are against the change for they consider it will have "grave consequences on unemployment levels and the grey economy and will slow down recovery."
Industrialists claim that the government has bowed to "unprecedented pressure from the street" and "illicit interests" on the part of people who want to "continue draining the budget of the National Health Security Fund."