Protest earlier than the Nationwide Meeting: We’re not slaves, we now have rights, our work is just not free – 2024-07-16 15:29:24

/ world at present information/ “We’re not slaves, we now have rights”, “Our work is just not free”. These have been a part of the posters that the folks from the introduced protest towards employer arbitrariness carried in entrance of the Nationwide Meeting.

“We would like the cost of salaries, we wish them to pay our medical insurance, to pay us all the advantages and the whole lot that’s owed to us by contract and by legislation,” stated Veselin Ivanova, an worker from Piccadilly Varna. She listed that there aren’t solely staff of Piccadilly on the protest, there are staff of Max Telecom, and from Bobov dol, Dupnitsa, Dimitrovgrad….”There are additionally many others who assist us, however have been unable to attend our protest at present. So it’s actually excessive time that the rulers take measures and take note of the Bulgarian folks, to be protected, as a result of we finally wish to keep within the nation”, she acknowledged.

“Nobody got here from the administration to talk, clarify or say something to us. Silence. They only got here, closed the store and that was it,” stated Hristina, who’s from Piccadilly Sofia and stated that she may also obtain two salaries, 25 days of paid go away, compensation. “I hope that they’ll change the legislation, move the brand new legislation within the Nationwide Meeting and we shall be paid – not solely us, all of us, we shall be paid the sums due,” stated the girl.

Ombudsman Maya Manolova identified that the calls for of the protesters are well-founded. “Folks have labored and anticipate to obtain their wages, however in the long run the employer hides, transfers firm, works on the identical place beneath a unique identify, or just tells them in essentially the most blatant manner that he won’t pay what they’ve earned. And in these circumstances, it’s the state, by its establishments, that should stand behind its residents, as a result of the precise to work and the precise to remuneration ample to the work performed is a constitutional proper. It’s about primary constitutional rights that the state should defend to its residents”, she identified. Manolova recalled that since there are gaps within the laws that permit all this to occur, “along with these and different victims, we mentioned legislative adjustments that I launched on the primary working day of this parliament.” “As a substitute of discussing and accepting them, the deputies created a parliamentary fee of inquiry to analyze.” It isn’t clear how you can examine, it labored for a number of months, in the long run they submitted solely part of the proposals I made”, indicated Manolova. Based on her, if all of the proposals which have been made are accepted, these folks may have options to their downside. Among the many issues she identified was to make the Chapter Assure Fund operational. Manolova defined that it was not working due to a legislative downside that she proposed to repair. “The issue is that with a view to request cash from the fund within the quantity of 6 unpaid salaries as much as BGN 1,200, you have to take part in a three-month interval between the termination of your employment relationship and the announcement of chapter proceedings of your employer,” she stated and recalled , that he proposes to make this era not less than one yr, so that individuals, like those that are protesting, can get their cash from this fund. She identified that for the reason that starting of the yr, 435 complaints have been submitted to the establishment, of which greater than 30 are collective.

Vasil Vatrachki was among the many individuals who have been in entrance of the Nationwide Meeting at present. In the beginning of the yr, seamstresses from the Italian shoe workshops in Dupnitsa staged a second protest demanding cost for the work performed within the already declared bankrupt firm “Abondanza”. “I got here right here to assist the protest of those younger folks. I personally can not think about that the state, with all of the assets it has, with all of the means at its disposal, can not remedy this downside. Within the twenty first century, somebody makes use of folks’s labor with out paying them,” he stated.