2011/34 Bulgarian law lists transfer-triggering events exhaustively (BU)
The Bulgarian Labour Code ('BLC') provides for the automatic transfer of employees to the transferee, not only upon legal transfer or merger of (a part of) an undertaking, but also upon temporary changes in the ownership of (a part of) an undertaking by virtue of a rental or lease agreement or a concession. Rental agreements, lease agreements and concessions are various legal forms of transfer of the right to use a property and these are regulated by different statutory provisions than those regulating transfers of undertakings the Bulgarian Supreme Court recently provided an interpretative decision to the effect that the Labour Code enumerates exhaustively which events lead to the automatic transfer of employees.
General Meeting of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Bulgaria, 2011-03-23