The draft law amending the Labor Code (see our dispatch No. 080561) came into force at the end of 2008. Without introducing fundamental changes, it brings about a few important changes: it recognizes the freedom to choose the law applicable to international employment relations, introduces new obligations for employers such as maintaining and improving employees' skills, and it strengthens sanctions in the event of offenses to labor law. By Plamen Peev; lawyer at Peterka & Partners, Sofia. (Ref. 090068)
Choice of law by the parties to employment relationships. Prior to the amendments, the Labor Code provided that Bulgarian labor law applied to employment relationships with international elements unless provided otherwise in a separate law or international agreement. In line with the Rome Convention of April 19, 1980 on the law applicable to contractual obligations, the general principle which will now apply for employment contracts with international elements of Bulgarian, EEA and Swiss citize
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