BCCI signed an agreement for promotion and distribution of food vouchers in the system of the Chamber
BCCI President, Mr. Tsvetan Simeonov and the General Manager of Sodexo Pass Bulgaria, Mr. Jean Istasse signed an agreement for promotion and distribution of food vouchers to more SMEs in the regions via the system of the Chamber.
“In these difficult for the Bulgarian economy and citizens conditions, the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is giving yet another clear signal to the business that corporate social responsibility and care for employees is an important element of industrial relations”, Mr. Simeonov said after the signing. According to Mr. Jean Istasse this agreement will provide an opportunity to maintain the interest to food vouchers of SMEs in the regions.
The aim of the agreement is through BCCI’s many regional and branch structures to make efforts to promote voucher payments as a form of incentive for the employees and workers. This option is even more useful in the conditions of growing inflation and inability of the households to meet their daily expenses.
According to Mr. Simeonov, the expansion of this system will serve as an additional stimulus for the unemployed to look for jobs more actively, and to acquire additional education and qualifications in order to find jobs precisely at the enterprises which demonstrate this kind of corporate social responsibility in order to facilitate meeting the everyday needs of their families. We will use the information channels of all regional chambers in the system of the BCCI and will train our employees to explain and to assist companies in implementing these systems for additional incentives for the employees and workers. Judging by the statistical data and the expectations for increase of budget revenues due to inflation, we can conclude that the time for politicians, both from the ruling party and the opposition, to demonstrate their support for the working citizens by increasing the threshold for payment of such incentives in nature recognized as expenses before tax is now.