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Georgia’s Collective Bargaining Coverage Is 4% — One of the Lowest in the Eastern Partnership
Collective bargaining covers only 4 percent of Georgian private sector workers. The legal framework for expansion exists; the institutional will to use it does not. Collective bargaining — the process by which employers and trade unions negotiate wages, working conditions, and employment terms on behalf of groups of workers — covers approximately 4 percent of…
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OECD: Employment Rates in Eastern Partnership Countries Are Recovering — But Georgia’s Informal Sector Masks the Real Picture
New OECD data shows structural employment gaps across the Eastern Partnership remain despite a decade of economic growth. The OECD Employment Outlook 2024, published in July 2024, includes a dedicated section on labour market trends in Eastern Partnership countries — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. The findings confirm what national labour force surveys have…
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Georgia’s Labour Code Has Been Amended 23 Times Since 2006: A History of Reactive Reform
Twelve years of incremental reform have improved Georgia’s Labour Code substantially — but core gaps in collective bargaining rights and enforcement remain. Georgia’s current Labour Code was adopted in 2010, replacing a transitional code from the 1990s. Since 2013, it has been amended 23 times — an average of nearly two substantive legislative changes per…
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Georgia Wire: Geostat Releases Q2 2026 Labour Force Survey — Key Findings
Georgia’s National Statistics Office published Q2 2026 LFS data showing continued improvement in employment but persistent regional disparities. The National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) released the Q2 2026 Labour Force Survey results in late August, providing the most recent systematic snapshot of Georgian labour market conditions. The headline figures show continued improvement from the…
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Anti-Discrimination Law at Ten Years: What Has Changed for Georgian Workers — and What Has Not
Georgia’s landmark 2014 anti-discrimination legislation marked a decade in 2024. The record on employment discrimination enforcement is mixed at best. Georgia’s Law on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination was adopted in May 2014, primarily as a condition of the EU Association Agreement and the associated visa liberalisation process. The law prohibits discrimination on…
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Decent Work Index for Georgia: 4.7 Out of 10 — What Each Pillar Reveals
GILS’s composite Decent Work Index scores Georgia across 11 ILO dimensions. Employment quality and social dialogue are the weakest areas. The ILO’s Decent Work framework — developed in 1999 and progressively operationalised through its Decent Work Indicators project — measures labour market outcomes across 11 dimensions: employment opportunities, adequate earnings and productive work, decent working…
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Georgia Wire: Parliament Debates Labour Code Amendment on Fixed-Term Contracts — What Changed
A proposed amendment to Georgia’s working time provisions has divided social partners — with GTUC supporting and GEA opposing the bill. The Georgian Parliament’s Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration held a hearing in August 2026 on a proposed amendment to the Labour Code addressing maximum daily and weekly working time. The bill, introduced…
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Labour Rights Violations in Georgia 2025: The Solidarity Network’s Annual Report in Numbers
Georgia’s leading labour rights NGO documented 247 cases of workplace rights violations in 2025 — with wage theft and contract fraud the most common complaints. The Solidarity Network of Georgia, the country’s most active independent labour rights organisation, published its 2025 Annual Labour Rights Violations Report in June 2026. The report documented 247 cases handled…
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Education Mismatch in Georgia: 27% Are Overeducated for Their Jobs — and the Labour Market Is Not Absorbing Graduates
When more than a quarter of the workforce is overeducated for their jobs, the economy pays a productivity penalty. GILS quantifies the cost. Twenty-seven percent of employed workers in Georgia are overeducated relative to the requirements of their jobs — meaning they hold a higher educational qualification than their current position requires. This figure, derived…