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Georgia has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the Eastern Partnership region. Women earn on average 33% less than men — a gap that has not narrowed in a decade despite strong economic growth. This...
A close reading of the legislative architecture reveals structural gaps that leave hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Georgians outside the system's effective reach. Georgia's Law on Social...
Read more →A decade after the 2015 Public Service Law took effect, structural gaps in merit-based recruitment and pay transparency continue to undermine the reform's original promise. Georgia's Public ...
Read more →The legislation marks a genuine shift toward active labour market policy, but institutional capacity and targeting gaps threaten to blunt its impact before it begins. Georgia's Employment Assista...
Read more →New legal obligations place real duties on employers, yet enforcement gaps and employer unpreparedness mean most workers with disabilities remain locked out of formal employment. Georgia's Law on...
Read more →Informality in Georgia is not a transition-era residue. It is a structural feature of how the economy functions. According to Geostat data and ILO estimates, approximately 37 percent of all employment...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 politi...
Read more →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: T...
Read more →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 → GIL...
Read more →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...
Read more →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 Promot...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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 G...
Read more →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 Commissi...
Read more →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 r...
Read more →When Georgia’s main trade union confederation and employer association agreed publicly on the need for minimum wage reform, it should have been a turning point. It wasn’t. In April 2023, t...
Read more →The 13.3% unemployment rate captures one dimension of Georgia’s labour market slack. The ILO’s composite underutilisation measure — at approximately 21% — captures the full picture. Georgi...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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 w...
Read more →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 A...
Read more →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 199...
Read more →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...
Read more →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 ove...
Read more →GILS’s Labour Rights Index scores Georgian labour law across seven dimensions. The overall score of 5.7 out of 10 reflects genuine strengths and persistent gaps. The GILS Labour Rights Index is ...
Read more →GTUC’s 220,000 members represent 11% of formal sector workers. The conditions for growth exist; the strategy to achieve it is less clear. The Georgian Trade Union Confederation represents approx...
Read more →Georgia’s annual comparative labour scorecard against Armenia and Azerbaijan shows a mixed regional picture — with each country leading in different areas. The GILS South Caucasus Labour Compara...
Read more →The funded pension reform of 2019 improved Georgia’s pension architecture significantly — but leaves informal workers without coverage in ways that will produce a retirement crisis. Georgia̵...
Read more →Georgia’s law requires employers with more than 50 staff to employ a minimum share of workers with disabilities. The quota has never been systematically enforced. Georgia’s Law on Social P...
Read more →When the Georgian Institute of Labour Studies was established in February 2026, it filled a gap in Georgia’s research and policy ecosystem that had been open for decades. The Georgian Institute ...
Read more →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...
Read more →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 Foundat...
Read more →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...
Read more →The EU Platform Work Directive, provisionally agreed in 2024, creates new employment presumptions for gig workers that EU candidate countries will need to transpose. The European Parliament and the Co...
Read more →New CEPR evidence synthesis challenges the standard objection to minimum wage reform in countries like Georgia. The Centre for Economic Policy Research published a comprehensive evidence synthesis in ...
Read more →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 (Geosta...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →The ILO Tbilisi office launched a new initiative in August 2026 to improve skills portability for Georgian workers returning from abroad. The ILO Country Office for Georgia launched the Georgia Labour...
Read more →The EBA’s 2026 White Book includes new recommendations on employment contract flexibility and calls for a ministerial working group on labour market modernisation. The European Business Associat...
Read more →Georgia’s Labour Inspection Service documented 1,847 workplace accidents in 2023. With fewer than 5% of workplaces inspected, the official figure understates the true incidence significantly. Th...
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