27.12.2020

There are over 224,000 unemployed people in Bulgaria

52% of them are people without qualifications and specialty

According to the Employment Agency, currently the registered unemployed in the country are just over 224,000 people.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy reports that as of December 22, the measure 60/40, to support businesses from the effects of the coronavirus, has saved nearly 250,000 jobs in 11,000 companies.

The covid crisis broke the positive trends in employment and unemployment, which have been observed since 2014, commented the chief expert on the labor market in Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB).

"The economic recession caused by the pandemic in 2020 has had a strong impact on the labor market and the positive trend in both employment and unemployment over the past six years has been reversed both in the European Union and in Bulgaria. Turned out to be the groups of people who are without qualification and education, and on the other hand those who were engaged in temporary employment, in seasonal employment", Atanaska Todorova commented to BNR.

Regarding the unemployed without qualification and specialty in our country, she added that this group is 52% of all registered unemployed people this year. "When we have an oversaturation of the labor market with educated people, those who are not educated fall out of the labor market. He throws them out. Every employer prefers whoever hires to be able to read the instructions that will be given to him, and not for anyone to read them to him," she explained.

So far, the peak of unemployment was reported in May, when registered at the Labor Offices exceeded 295,000 people.

The Employment Agency expects the average annual number of registered in the scenario of rapid recovery of the sectors "Hotel and Restaurant" and "Manufacturing" to be 253,000 people, and in case this does not happen, their number is expected to increase to 274,000 people.