The Bulgarian Labor Minister Emiliya Maslarova is expected to restore the traditional social policy relations with Vietnam during her visit there. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency) buy photo
Bulgaria will be short of 20 000 construction workers in 2008, and many Bulgarian construction firms are ready to hire laborers from Vietnam to fill up the shortage. The news was announced Monday by the Deputy Chair of the Bulgarian Construction Chamber Ivan Boykov before the Bulgarian private Darik Radio. It comes at a moment when the Bulgarian Minister of Labor and Social Policy Emiliya Maslarova is on an official visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that began on Monday, and will last until Saturday, April 12. The Bulgarian and the Vietnamese delegations already discussed the draft of a memorandum for encouraging the cooperation in labor, social insurance, and social security between the governments of Bulgaria and Vietnam.However, it does not include the question about the hiring of Vietnamese workers by Bulgarian firms the common rules of the EU do not allow the conducting of a separate labor policy by its individual members states. Bulgarian companies do have the opportunity to hire Vietnamese workers through the legal procedure, which requires a permission by the Bulgarian State Agency for Employment, whose Executive Director Sotir Ushev is also in Hanoi as a member of the official delegation. Representatives of the Employment Agency have announced that only one work permit to a Vietnamese citizen was issued in 2007, because there was only one applicant from Vietnam who wanted to work in Bulgaria.In 2008, however, there have already been petitions for work permits for 29 Vietnamese bricklayers by the factory of Orgachim in the city of Ruse, and for 32 welders from Vietnam by the Ruse Shipyard. Some half a million Vietnamese out of the total 85 million population work abroad in 40 different countries but mainly in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Middle East. In 2007 75 000 laborers went to work abroad. For the last 16 years, the Vietnamese workers abroad have transferred some USD 23 M to their home country. The country has a total work force of 43 million people, with 1,5 million entering the labor market each year.The visit of the Bulgarian Labor Minister Emiliya Maslarova is expected to renew the labor and social policy relations between Bulgaria and Vietnam that were terminated 18 years after the break up of the former Soviet Block.
Bulgaria will be short of 20 000 construction workers in 2008, and many Bulgarian construction firms are ready to hire laborers from Vietnam to fill up the shortage. The news was announced Monday by the Deputy Chair of the Bulgarian Construction Chamber Ivan Boykov before the Bulgarian private Darik Radio. It comes at a moment when the Bulgarian Minister of Labor and Social Policy Emiliya Maslarova is on an official visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that began on Monday, and will last until Saturday, April 12. The Bulgarian and the Vietnamese delegations already discussed the draft of a memorandum for encouraging the cooperation in labor, social insurance, and social security between the governments of Bulgaria and Vietnam.However, it does not include the question about the hiring of Vietnamese workers by Bulgarian firms the common rules of the EU do not allow the conducting of a separate labor policy by its individual members states. Bulgarian companies do have the opportunity to hire Vietnamese workers through the legal procedure, which requires a permission by the Bulgarian State Agency for Employment, whose Executive Director Sotir Ushev is also in Hanoi as a member of the official delegation. Representatives of the Employment Agency have announced that only one work permit to a Vietnamese citizen was issued in 2007, because there was only one applicant from Vietnam who wanted to work in Bulgaria.In 2008, however, there have already been petitions for work permits for 29 Vietnamese bricklayers by the factory of Orgachim in the city of Ruse, and for 32 welders from Vietnam by the Ruse Shipyard. Some half a million Vietnamese out of the total 85 million population work abroad in 40 different countries but mainly in Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Middle East. In 2007 75 000 laborers went to work abroad. For the last 16 years, the Vietnamese workers abroad have transferred some USD 23 M to their home country. The country has a total work force of 43 million people, with 1,5 million entering the labor market each year.The visit of the Bulgarian Labor Minister Emiliya Maslarova is expected to renew the labor and social policy relations between Bulgaria and Vietnam that were terminated 18 years after the break up of the former Soviet Block.
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