The business calls for a new start of the pension contributions negotiations

“The employers will return to the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation only if the negotiations for the pension contributions start afresh”, announced Tsvetan Simeonov- President of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. An express BCCI survey showed that 96% of employers reject the intention of the government for increasing the social security contributions. Simeonov is against the raising of social security regardless whether it will be by 3%, as was at first announced, or by a smaller percentage. This will lead to decrease in salaries and companies’ crossing to the grey economy.
„If we have to put on the scales the years necessary for, let’s say qualifying for a pension, because we are not talking about pension age, and the increased contributions, it is evident that the first choice is preferable. And if we have to choose between the two, we say “No” to the increased social security contributions and “Yes” to the other one. It is the task and the problem of analysts to make calculations and find out when it should be done. The sooner, the better, because this will, according to our analysts, enable this change to happen lightly and painlessly. Because, if at once we determine to set five years, it is clear for all that for the next five years there will be no retired at all, and then the social security system will become very rich”, Simeonov commented. 
The BCCI President criticized the government on the signed agreement with the Bulgarian Medical Association, because it pours money into an unreformed system.  
„It is unacceptable that this happens on a bipartite basis in full violation of all Labour Code provisions, of the regulation of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation and of the principles of democratic society, which, even the provisions of the law did not exist, are important enough for a functioning market economy. I do not know who conducted the negotiations and how they did it, but what is published on the website cannot be called an agreement. This is a generous willingness to dispose of the money of tax payers, transferring it into an unreformed system. Nobody in Bulgaria, including employers, will be against pouring double and triple amounts in that system, provided that the expenditure of this money is efficient”, said Simeonov.
He reminded that at least 200-300 million BGN may enter the budget after the privatization of minority shares of the state on the stock-market. This was one of the measures against the crisis, which was outlined by the tripartite cooperation in the spring. Employers called for a stricter control on the grey economy

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