SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe

This study investigates the motivations underpinning support for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Türkiye’s 2023 presidential elections (14 and 28 May) and explores voter perceptions of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, put up in that election as the candidate of...

The minimum wage serves as a fundamental aspect of labour rights aimed at safeguarding workers from exploitation and ensuring a basic standard of living. In recent years, the European Union has taken significant steps to harmonise minimum wage...

Over the past three years, the cumulative Consumer Price Index in Bulgaria has reached nearly 35%, while inflation in the small consumer basket rose even more. Low and middle-income earners spend an ever-increasing proportion of their income on...

This article explores the criteria for minimum wage setting as set out in Article 5 of the European Minimum Wage Directive. Bulgaria must transpose the Directive and, as a result, some processes have already been initiated. However, tripartite...

It has become clear that economic growth is not the only way of expressing a country’s development and progress. Recently, development has also come to incorporate the components of environmental protection and social equity within a broader...

New municipalism as a political-strategic approach is a reaction to the authoritarian management of the deep and multiple crises of capitalism after 2008. From their base in Spain, municipalist platforms have extended elsewhere across the globe,...