People can now check what contracts are registered with the NRA in their name in the new employment register, writes Pariteni. The register officially exists since June 1, 2025, after paper employment books were replaced with unified electronic employment records. The records also replace the current registration of employment contracts and their amendments in the NRA.
The records in the register are available in the the NRA portal, section "E-services", sub-section "Reports"/Provision of a report on the current status of a single electronic employment record.
Login is possible with a qualified electronic signature, NRA PIN or e-authentication (via the page https://egov.bg, for which a QES, NRA PIN or NSSI PIN is required). To see all their available contracts, users must mark the "all" option in the "electronic labor records" field, writes Sega.
The record contains the employer's UIC, name, date of conclusion of the contract, start of performance, change of legal relationship, additional agreement, reason for conclusion, position, economic activity, location and amount of the basic salary. The salary is now indicated not only in leva, but also in euros. In the future, it will publish more data that were included in the new notifications - working hours; agreed paid annual leave; leave due for the year of termination of the contract; benefits paid; duration of time recognized as work experience and duration of time that is not recognized. A new column has also been included - attachment notices.
Unlike employment records, the employment register only includes information on contracts that were in effect on January 2, 2003 and after. This is because the obligation to register employment contracts was published in the State Gazette on the last Sunday of 2002 and entered into force on January 2, 2003. According to these changes, employment contracts that existed when the law came into force had to be additionally registered by employers. That is why many people will see their contract in effect on January 2, 2003 as the first entry. For circumstances before these contracts, the employment record remains a certifying document. As we wrote, the National Social Security Institute recommends that insured persons keep all their employment records until retirement precisely because they can be used to verify the insurance periods recorded in them.
Along with the entry into force of the changes to the electronic employment record, a case came to the agenda that will create difficulties when starting a new job. In order to conclude an employment contract with a new employee, his or her seniority must be verified in order to determine his or her supplement for acquired seniority and professional experience, the so-called class. Now this did not create difficulties, since seniority can be verified with the employment record.
However, paper employment records must be completed by employers by June 1, 2026, recording the length of employment in the relevant company as of June 1, 2025. This means that seniority after this date will have to be verified through the employee's electronic employment record. However, since he does not yet have a contract, his new employer does not have access to the data in the register.
Therefore, the employee will have to print out his profile. If this employee has experience before 2003, he will also have to take his work book to verify it. So instead of these documents being obtained electronically, which is the goal of the reform, getting a new job will again require delivering paper documents.