Category: GILS News
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Working Poverty in Georgia: Why Having a Job Is No Longer a Guarantee Against Poverty
With a statutory minimum wage frozen at GEL 20 since 1999, a quarter of employed Georgians earn below subsistence level. In 2024, approximately 24 percent of employed people in Georgia earned incomes below the national subsistence minimum — a threshold currently set at approximately GEL 260 per month for an adult. This phenomenon, working poverty,…
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1.5 Million Georgians Work Abroad: Remittances, Brain Drain, and the Labour Market Left Behind
Remittances now equal 13.7% of Georgia’s GDP, raising questions about what kind of development model this country is building. Approximately 1.5 million Georgian citizens — nearly 40 percent of the working-age population — currently reside and work abroad. They send home remittances that, in 2023, totalled approximately GEL 7.8 billion, equivalent to 13.7 percent of…
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Georgia Wire: Government Reports on Labour Market Performance — What the Data Shows Beyond the Headlines
Source: Civil.ge Jailed former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has issued a new lengthy letter looking back at his 2021-2024 tenure, crediting his government with rescuing the country from a political and economic crisis, reopening the economy, “refusing COVID dictatorship,” and securing EU candidate status “without bowing head to anyone.” In the September 29 letter, published…
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Skills for Fair and Efficient Labour Migration: What the Global Evidence Shows for Georgia
Source: ETF Skills for fair, efficient labour migration Image Learn more Explore the ETF’s new reports on migration policy and action that benefits all Read the full article at ETF → GILS Note: This story is relevant to Georgian labour policy context. See related GILS analysis at labour.edu.ge.
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Beyond Free Trade and Protectionism: The Case for a Pro-Worker Trade Policy Framework for Georgia
Source: Social Europe Four changes – from enforceable labour rights to seats in the boardroom – would restore democratic legitimacy to open economies. Read the full article at Social Europe → GILS Note: This story is relevant to Georgian labour policy context. See related GILS analysis at labour.edu.ge.
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Georgia Wire: New Parliamentary Appointment to Labour Committee — Implications for Labour Legislation
Source: Civil.ge Businesswoman Ketevan Khurodze has been approved as a Georgian Dream MP in the disputed Parliament with the support of 79 lawmakers, replacing Maia Bitadze, who left her parliamentary seat after being appointed culture minister on September 15. Khurodze was number 105 on the Georgian Dream party list in the 2024 parliamentary elections. According…