What kind of personnel are Bulgarian employers looking for, is it aging the labor force in our country and why did the foreigners from Nepal and Sri Lanka who were massively employed on the Black Sea disappear mysteriously? The topic on the air of “Hello, Bulgaria” commented the vice-president of the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association Veselin Nalbantov, the vice-president of KNSB Todor Kapitanov and the expert in BSK Tomcho Tomov.
According to Nalbantov, the European trend is the fact that workers from Asia have increased by 5%. FROM Bulgaria, however, they have almost disappeared, which, according to the chairman of the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association, means that there is a channel for the transfer of workers to Western Europe. “The employment agency should immediately find them and put a black stamp on them. There are other details, however. They have Schengen visas. They dumped their luggage and passports at my place. "Maybe they were told that they shouldn't have any documents because the channel is illegal," Veselin Nalbantov believes.
What kind of working conditions and salaries are we talking about when the foreigners employed on the Black Sea coast flee without taking their luggage or passports. We need to think about this, urged Todor Kapitanov.
Another problem that was discussed is the aging of the labor force in our country. According to a study by KNSB and the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, if the aging of the workforce continues at the same pace, in 20 years 48% of all workers in Bulgaria will be over 55 years old. In particular, the results apply to the sectors of canning industry, woodworking, furniture industry, metallurgy, beer production and trade in petroleum products.
Tomcho Tomov explained that the research covers over 60-70 enterprises of different sizes. He emphasized that it is not impossible that the situation in other sectors is even more worrying. Only 6-7% of all personnel in these fields are young people under the age of 25, added the BSK expert.
„There is almost no country in Europe that does not have a problem with the workforce,” Todor Kapitanov emphasized. He added that the difficulties are not only in the listed sectors.