From the beginning of the year to the end of August, 47 mass layoff notices were submitted for the entire country. It is about 4 thousand people.
Tensions in the North West have prompted the impending closure of two major plants. Thousands remain unemployed, bTV reported.
Nearly 2,500 people are out of a job after two auto equipment plants – in Pleven and Mezdra, announced that they are suspending work for several months.
950 workers from three areas – Montanska, Vrachanska and Plevenska, travel to the automotive cable factory in Mezdra.
Most are satisfied with both the conditions and the remuneration and find it difficult to accept that the company is closing. Every second one has credit.
„Well, what are we going to do, ask the people with loans what they are going to do. "The people of the villages are left without bread," says Veselina Marinova.
According to Danail Vutov, who has been working there for eight years, many workers travel from Turnava, Galiche, Altimir, Borovan, Dobrolevo.
„15 years of working with these people and then once again. It seems that we are not needed by anyone”, says Tsvetoslava Todorova, crying.
Some have already found a new job, like Nikolay, whose last day at the factory is today.
„Everything has a beginning and an end, and this is the end of the company. As far as I know – we are very expensive“, says Nikolay Tselov.
The owner of the plant is a Japanese company. It plans to close its branch in Mezdra because of high production and rapidly rising labor costs in our country.
Ironically, the mayor of Mezdra, with whose efforts the enterprise opened its doors 15 years ago, will now witness its closure.
„This is another proof, when the state is late with many measures, in business it is extremely important to have a predictable economic environment. "We don't have it," Mayor Ivan Asparuhov points out.
According to official information, part of the production is moving to Moldova, the other – in Romania. In Moldova, the minimum wage is below BGN 500.
In July, a German corporation also announced that by the end of the year it would lay off 1,300 people from its factory in Pleven, opened only six years ago with an investment of hundreds of millions.