Category: Laws & Conventions
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Georgia Ratified C187 on Occupational Safety in 2013 — Where Is the Implementation?
Eleven years after ratifying the ILO’s most modern OSH convention, Georgia has yet to build the integrated national OSH system C187 requires. Georgia ratified ILO Convention No. 187 — the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health — in 2013. The convention is among the ILO’s most ambitious instruments, requiring ratifying states to establish a…
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ILO’s DWCP 2024–2026 for Georgia: What the Programme Actually Commits To
The Decent Work Country Programme sets three strategic priorities — and provides a public accountability framework that Georgia’s social partners should use. The ILO’s Decent Work Country Programme for Georgia 2024–2026 was signed in Tbilisi in February 2024, formalising the ILO’s operational priorities in the country for a three-year cycle. The document is notable not…
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Social Europe: The EU’s Adequate Minimum Wages Directive and What It Means for Candidate Countries
The 2022 EU directive on adequate minimum wages creates concrete expectations for countries on the EU accession path — including Georgia. The European Union’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages, adopted in October 2022, represents the most significant EU-level intervention on minimum wage policy since the inception of the Single Market. The Directive does not impose…
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ETF: Skills Development Is the Missing Link in Georgia’s EU Integration Strategy
The European Training Foundation’s 2024 assessment identifies vocational education reform as the single highest-impact lever for Georgian labour market improvement. The European Training Foundation (ETF), the EU agency responsible for supporting vocational education and training reform in partner countries, published its 2024 assessment of Georgia’s skills development system in September 2024. The document — part…
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Georgia’s Gender Equality Law: Strong on Paper, Weak on Enforcement
The 2010 Gender Equality Law and its 2020 amendments create comprehensive formal obligations — none of which are routinely enforced. Georgia’s Law on Gender Equality was adopted in 2010, amended significantly in 2020, and sits within a broader legislative framework that includes the Law on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (2014) and the…
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Georgia’s Collective Bargaining Coverage Is 4% — One of Europe’s Lowest
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…