The National Assembly of Bulgaria has approved facilitations for the employment of foreign workers who hold a valid EU Blue Card during the second reading.
It has been confirmed that authorities in Bulgaria abolished the requirement that workers who plan to work in Bulgaria have a higher education, SchengenVisaInfo reports.
The approval came during the second reading of the law on labour, migration and mobility, while the parliament also presented a flexible regime of the possibilities of remote work and also the possibilities of long-term as well as short-term taking also into account the territory of the European Union.
Authorities in Bulgaria also confirmed that new changes have also been applied to the Law on Promotion of Employment, the Law on Health Insurance and the Law on Bulgarian Personal Documents. The new amendments have been taken as part of efforts to further ease the procedures for obtaining the EU Blue Card for foreigners.
In this regard, officials in Bulgaria have considered that it is inappropriate for internationals who meet the conditions for exercising highly qualified employment based on the country’s legislation to enter this country holding a short-term residence visa.
The People’s Representative from Democratic Bulgaria, Nadezhda Yordanova stressed that business needs over 11,00 professionals.
She said that companies from the information technology sector are also subject to a significant shortage while stressing that 40,000 to 50,000 people can find work as IT specialists.
According to her, the introduction of a new effective scheme which aims to attract a large number of employees from third countries with high professional qualifications will help to overcome the shortage of highly qualified personnel in different sectors of the economy while placing Bulgaria as a competitive environment in terms of business.
“Every single foreigner, I am talking about countries outside the European Union, the European Economic Area, will now be able, even if he does not have a higher education, not only to compete but also to be preferred because of the lower salary that he will be given by these local, foreign corporations working in Bulgaria, foreign companies, should be preferred instead of a Bulgarian employee, even one who is at work,” Deputy Petar Petrov pointed out in this regard.
In addition, he considered that discriminatory.
At the same time, Georgi Gyokov from BSP considered that the haste that the country has done in adopting this bill will not lead to anything good. He said that Bulgaria is opening the Bulgarian labour market-wide and uncontrolled without offering guarantees of protection of the interests of the Bulgarian workforce.