Changes in Bulgarian employment law were introduced in the Ordinance for the working time, breaks and vacations and in the Ordinance for the compensations from the state social security funds. The changes were enacted on 30.09.2022 but entered into force retroactively as of 01.08.2022. This is obviously another attempt of Bulgarian authorities to meet the deadline for transposing Directive 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union which expired in August 2022 and Directive 2019/1158 on work-life balance for parents and carers.

The changes introduce a large number of additional administrative obligations for employers, where the organization of work includes work flexible working time arrangements such as active and inactive on-call work.

Generally, the changes concern the following:

• on-duty and on-call work – some discrepancies in the old regulation concerning the implementation and administration of such working time have been clarified, including the process for drawing up monthly schedules and notifying the employees
• the terms and conditions for using the newly introduced paid leave for fathers (or adoptive fathers) of children up to the age of eight years as well as the requirements to receive the respective compensation from the state social security funds – some new templates have been introduced to be used by employers for this purpose. Moreover, the changes introduce various new obligations (substantial and quite difficult...

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