Category: GILS News
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Georgia Ratified ILO C187 on Occupational Safety in 2013 — Why Workplace Deaths Have Not Fallen
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 Decent Work Country Programme 2024–2026 for Georgia: Priorities, Gaps, and What It Does Not Cover
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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Georgia’s Minimum Wage Has Been GEL 20 Since 1999: The Living Wage Gap in Numbers
At GEL 20 per month, Georgia’s statutory minimum wage is not a floor — it is a legal fiction. A comprehensive review is long overdue. In 1999, Georgia’s statutory minimum wage was set at GEL 20 per month. Twenty-seven years later, it remains at GEL 20 per month. Over that same period, Georgia’s nominal GDP…
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Georgia’s Tripartite Commission: An Institution With a Mandate It Cannot Currently Fulfil
Georgia’s Tripartite Commission has 27 members and meets quarterly — but lacks binding authority, a secretariat, and any mechanism to enforce its conclusions. Georgia’s Tripartite Commission for Social Partnership was established by presidential decree in 2004 and given a legal basis in the Labour Code. It brings together representatives of the Government of Georgia, the…
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Youth Unemployment in Georgia at 17.5%: A Historic Low That Still Conceals Structural Exclusion
Georgia’s youth unemployment rate has fallen from 39.9% in 2009 to 17.5% in 2024 — a genuine achievement that masks persistent quality and skills challenges. Georgia’s youth unemployment rate — measured for the 15–24 age cohort — fell to 17.5 percent in 2024, its lowest level since the Geostat Labour Force Survey began systematic tracking…
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The EU’s Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: What It Means for Georgia as a Candidate Country
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…