Posted by As part of its retirement reform the Bulgarian government has announced plans to raise the country’s retirement age by three years.
A pie in the sky idea, writes the daily Novinar:
“Europe’s working conditions, medical care and labour laws may guarantee that people can continue to be effective and useful even at an advanced age. Here things are a bit different however. One glance inside a garment factory is enought to bring one back to the days of the industrial revolution when people literally died on the job. According to the unions the legal working hours in Bulgaria are massively disregarded. If you add it all up we can safely say that most workers had already done their additional three years of work before it even occurred to the cabinet to raise the retirement age.”
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