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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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ILO
EPLex in Brief No. 1
EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION LEGISLATION (EPL) OF GEORGIA:
A review based on ILO standards, OECD indicators and comparative labour law [December 2012]
by Angelika Muller
[full-text, 12 pages]
The Labour Code of Georgia has provoked, since its adoption in 2006, controversial discussions in the
country and in the international community. On the one hand, this reform has been contested for the lack
of tripartite social dialogue, and for the extent of deregulation which reduced the labour law to 56 articles
in total. Critical comments expressed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the European
Union (EU) were not taken into consideration. On the other hand, the Georgian government, with support
from the World Bank, has presented this reform as a model for other countries in transition to the market
economy.
The objective of this note is to review the Labour Code of Georgia with specific focus on employment
protection legislation (EPL) from international and comparative perspectives. The main references used are
ILO standards, EPL indicators of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and
the labour law of selected jurisdictions.
The assessment of the labour law of Georgia in this note does not pretend to be comprehensive. For
instance, the regulation of freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining is not examined, as
since 2006, the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations
(CEACR) has provided extensive comments on the Labour Code of Georgia on these issues.2
The legal review of the Labour Code of Georgia in this note is complemented with some economic data,
such as rates of unemployment and self-employment, wages, the growth of gross domestic product (GDP)
and foreign direct investments in the country. The conjunction of legal and economic indicators is used to
attempt an assessment of the impact of the reform of 2006 on the labour market of Georgia.
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