...As regards the labour of the employed in the mining industry, the Ombudsman has identified the need of protection of the rights of this specific category of labourers. In view of this, the Bulgarian Ombudsman supported the protests of the miners from Babino mine in Bobov dol in relation to unpaid salaries, compensations and food vouchers...Maya Manolova held working meetings with representatives of the institutions in charge: Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, trade unions, and the company management. Following those meetings, the company management promised to pay the overdue salaries and food vouchers. Since these initial promises were not fully kept, the Ombudsman had to intervene again, and as a result a commitment was made to pay the overdue compensations to the miners in three times shorter period as initially agreed upon a proposal of Bobov dol Mining management...