Еmployment credits

07 November, 2022

What they are – Work credits are salaries or other types of wages that the worker has accrued in
the months or years in which he has carried out a certain activity and which he has not received. Therefore they are in a situation in which, even if the work activity has been performed correctly, the employer has not fulfilled it’s legal obligations. The employee therefore has a working credit towards the company and will have the opportunity to recover these credits, as provided by law.
Types – employment credits can be credits deriving from wage differences and credits deriving from contribution differences.
Receivables arising from wage differences are all components of the salary of the employee.
The employee’s remuneration is made up of:

• – monthly wages (where holidays and permits accrued are included);

• – additional monthly payments;

• – severance indemnity (TFR)

• – and in any case all the sums paid by the employer that find their cause in the employment
  relationship.

Prescription – Salary credits are subject to prescription.
The statute of limitations consists in the extinction of a right in the event that it is not exercised
within the term provided by law and can be short (5 years) or ordinary (10 years). As a general rule, the limitation period starts from the date on which a right can be exercised. In the case of work credits, the question had been raised as to whether the limitation period should run from the end of the employment relationship or from the accrual of every single monthly payment of the pay slip.
Debt collection in Bulgaria – the creditor, before protecting his interests by taking legal action, can make a last attempt by sending the debtor a letter to comply with a notary. The communication is prepared in three copies and delivered to the debtor by a person appointed by
the Notary.
Normally the “notarial” warning is important as it is used in the out-of-court phase. Having in possession of the notarial warning, in fact, the creditor can always take legal action, in
the event that the extrajudicial attempt has been unsuccessfully carried out. The creditor can, in this way, ask the competent judge in addition to the condemnation of the
debtor for the principal payment, also compensation for the damage inherent in the insolvency of
the payment.

The Bulgarian law provides for a summary procedure for the recovery of pecuniary credits,
adopted according to the model of EC Regulation no. 1896/2006. To obtain an injunction, the
creditor has the burden of turning to a competent judge (generally the regional court of first
instance of the place where the debtor resides), presenting a standard form drawn up by the
Ministry of Justice and filing the evidence. as a basis for the credit claimed. The ordinary statute
of limitations for a credit in Bulgaria is 5 years.