Bulgarian Employees to Use 2010 Paid Leave by End of 2012

Society | January 10, 2011, Monday // 14:41|  views

The Bulgarian Parliament will vote Tuesday the amendments to the Labor Code, regarding the use of paid leave. Photo by BGNES

The paid leave for 2010 could be used until the end of 2012, according to the latest amendments to the Bulgarian Labor Code, Svetlana Angelova, Deputy Chair of the parliamentary Social Committee, announced.

After a meeting between the committee, the Social Minister Totyu Mladenov, employers and trade unions, it was decided Monday that employees will be entitled to defer up to 10 days from their annual paid leave for next year, after having coordinated it with their employers.

On the other hand, employers will also have the opportunity to defer up to 10 days from their employee's paid leave, if there is too much work load.

Angelova said that the amendments to the text in the Labor Code, regarding paid leaves, will be presented to the Parliament on Tuesday.

In July, the Parliament approved the text in the Labor Code, which mandated that all paid leaves, accumulated by 2010, should be used by employees by the end of 2011, otherwise it would expire. The text also stated that the there is a 2-year deadline to use the paid leaves. However, the text was announced as anti-constitutional by the Bulgarian Constitutional Court.

Angelova has explained that from now on, the leading principle for paid leave use will be their 2-year deadline. The amendments envision that employees will be obliged to make a schedule for the paid leaves.

This year, the deadline for the completion of the schedule would be March 31. For next years, the deadline will be December 31, the previous year.

"Schedules have to be flexible and give the opportunity for change when necessary," she said and added that the Labor Inspectorate will check whether companies have completed the schedules and whether they violate the right of their employees to use their paid leave.

The debatable paid leave use was legally attacked by the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov and 51 Members of the Parliament from the two main opposition parties in Bulgaria – the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the ethnic Turkish party DPS, on the grounds the new rule contradicts the Constitution and international contracts and EU directives.

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Tags: paid leave, paid leaves, Labor Code, parliament, Totyu Mladenov, employers, trade unions, Georgi Parvanov, Constitutional Court, BSP, DPS

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