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Article

16 Sep 2016

Author:
Novinite (Bulgaria)

Bulgaria: Miners protest over unpaid wages & layoff compensation

"Miners stage roadblocks over lack of layoff compensation", 7 September 2016

Nearly a hundred miners staged...a blockade of the road linking Burgas and the resort town of Slanchev Bryag...A trade union official representing workers at the mine earlier told the Bulgarian National Radio the average value of salaries and layoff compensations owed to each of them was to the tune of BGN 2000 (around EUR 1023). The Cherno More mine...with its employees not having received payment for months at the time.