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Global Wire · 5 Oct 2026Flood-Driven Employment Shocks in Nepal: Supply-Chain and Informal-Work Lessons for GeorgiaAn ILO preliminary assessment of the 2026 Nepal floods identifies labour-market vulnerabilities that extend well beyond disaster zones, offering transferable insights for economies with high informality and remittance…Global Wire · 2 Oct 2026Climate Plans Need Workers, Not Just Disclosure: Lessons from Duisburg for GeorgiaA recent Social Europe essay argues that corporate climate plans need workers' involvement, not just disclosure, citing the 12,000 steelworkers who marched in Duisburg in support of green…Georgia Wire · 2 Oct 20262027 Budget: Pensions Rise by GEL 20–60 While Top Officials’ Salaries Rise 8% — What the Indexation Rule DeliversGeorgia's draft 2027 state budget raises the basic pension for people under 70 by GEL 20, to GEL 390 a month, and for those aged 70 and over…Georgia Wire · 18 Sep 2026Georgia Wire: The Labour Market in 2025 — Steady Unemployment, Falling Participation, and What the Headline MissesAfter a strong 2024, Georgia's labour market stalled in 2025. The unemployment rate stayed at 13.9%, while participation and employment rates edged down, women's participation fell, unemployment among…Global Wire · 17 Sep 2026Legal Labour Migration from Georgia: 90,000 Applicants, a Few Thousand Places — Lessons from the Germany Seasonal SchemeThe European Training Foundation's work on "skills for fair, efficient labour migration" places skills at the centre of migration policy. Georgia's own experience shows why. When a seasonal…Global Wire · 15 Sep 2026Pro-Worker Trade Policy: What Georgia’s EU Free Trade Agreement Shows About Labour Standards — and Their LimitsA recent Social Europe essay argues for moving beyond the choice between free trade and protectionism towards a pro-worker trade policy, proposing four changes ranging from enforceable labour…Georgia Wire · 14 Sep 2026Georgia Wire: Parliament Hears the Labour Inspection Service’s 2025 Report — Five Years After the Full MandateParliament's Economic Policy Committee has heard the Labour Inspection Service's report for 2025: 7,111 inspections, 3,709 facilities inspected for the first time, and a reported 46% fall in…Global Wire · 5 Sep 2026The EU Minimum Wage Directive After the 2025 Court Ruling: What Alignment Would Mean for GeorgiaThe EU's Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages, adopted in October 2022, was largely upheld by the Court of Justice in November 2025. As an EU candidate, Georgia will…Global Wire · 27 Aug 2026How Georgia’s Labour Market Compares with Its Eastern Neighbours and the EU: Highest Unemployment, Highest Youth UnemploymentHow does Georgia's labour market compare with its neighbours? Eurostat's statistics for the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood show that in 2021 Georgia had the highest unemployment rate and the…Georgia Wire · 24 Aug 2026Georgia Wire: Q2 2026 Labour Force Survey — Unemployment Falls to 13.8%, but Fewer People Are in WorkGeostat's second-quarter 2026 Labour Force Survey shows unemployment down to 13.8%. But participation fell faster, and the employment rate dropped to 46.0%. For the second quarter running, the…Georgia Wire · 20 Aug 2026Georgia Wire: Fixed-Term Contracts in Georgian Labour Law — What the 2013 and 2020 Reforms Changed, and What RemainsBefore 2013, most employment contracts in Georgia were short fixed-term contracts, renewed again and again. The 2013 and 2020 Labour Code reforms set limits: fixed-term contracts of less…Georgia Wire · 16 Aug 2026Georgia Wire: Domestic Workers Remain Outside the Labour Code — What the Evidence Shows as the ILO Raises the IssueDomestic workers — nannies, cleaners, carers and cooks working in private homes — remain outside the effective protection of Georgia's Labour Code. The best available estimate puts their…Global Wire · 13 Aug 2026The EU Platform Work Directive: What a Presumption of Employment Would Mean for Georgia’s CouriersThe EU's Platform Work Directive, adopted in October 2024, introduces a legal presumption that platform workers are employees when a platform directs and controls their work, and new…Georgia Wire · 10 Aug 2026Georgia Wire: What Employers Have Asked for in Labour Code Reform — From the 2013 Amendments to the 2020 PackageGeorgia's two major Labour Code reforms — in 2013 and 2020 — were both shaped by intense lobbying from business associations. Employers sought flexibility on working time, termination…Georgia Wire · 7 Aug 2026Georgia Wire: 32 Workplace Deaths in 2025, Two-Thirds in Construction — What the Labour Inspection Data ShowThe Labour Inspection Service recorded 32 workplace deaths and 179 injuries in 2025, and reported a 46% fall in fatal accidents compared with the previous year. Construction accounted…Global Wire · 4 Aug 2026Do Minimum Wages Cost Jobs? What the German and US Evidence Shows — and What It Means for GeorgiaOpponents of a meaningful minimum wage in Georgia often argue that it would destroy jobs. A large body of recent research from Europe and the United States finds…