25.05.2022

AN ELECTRONIC REGISTER OF PEOPLE OF WORKING AGE WHO NEITHER WORK NOR STUDY IS BEING CREATED

An electronic register of unemployed Bulgarians will be created, which will provide information to the employees of the Employment Agency where they are and what are the reasons why hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians neither study nor work.

This is provided by the amendments to the Employment Promotion Act, which were debated in the second reading by the Parliament.

The register of inactive persons will not be public and only the interested institutions will have access to it. The data will be collected in cooperation with the NRA, MES, GRAO, NSI, ASA.

According to a report by the Employment Agency, 900,000 Bulgarians neither work nor study. 170,000 of them are young people or this is 17 percent of young people in our country and according to this indicator Bulgaria is one of the leading places, according to the reasons of the petitioners.

"Inactive people are a serious reserve on the labor market, but currently the Employment Agency reaches a small part of them due to legal gaps," reads the reasons for the bill.

According to the petitioners, the changes in the law will allow the agency to actively interact with institutions for analysis, search and contact with people who are of working age, but due to various factors can not reach the agency's services to find work.