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Thursday, 18 March 2010

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  • Shuffling the personnel pack 2010-03-17 15:52
  • Wagging Georgia 2010-03-15 14:06
  • Is there a way to stop Georgia’s decay? 2010-03-15 09:55
  • Georgian wine back to Russia? 2010-03-11 22:41 Hardly is there anyone who doubts abnormality of Russian-Georgian relations. The events of 2008 when two neighboring states turned into enemies for the first time in their history is simply beyond any reasonable explanation. Current developments in bilateral relations of two states are incomprehensible either – at least as far as return of Georgian produce to the Russian market is concerned.
  • Lobio won’t buy lobby 2010-03-10 17:17 Georgia has hired new lobbying firms in the USA. Without them Mikheil Saakashvili’s meetings with influential politicians like Barack Obama are no more possible. It seems the Georgian leader has communication problems not only with Russian leaders to whom he either sends relatives or his Armenian counterpart.
  • Taking up Nogaideli’s path 2010-03-04 13:37 Today Nino Burdzhanadze is calling on her Moscow friends she went to Moscow State Institute of International Relations with. The Ex Speaker repeated the exploit of ex PM Zurab Nogaideli who managed to settle relations with Moscow politicians unafraid to be accused of high treason last year. In the meantime there are suspicions Mikheil Saakashvili has secret ties with Moscow.
  • Khloponin: three problems and four clusters 2010-03-01 23:30 North Caucasus Presidential Envoy, Vice PM Alexander Khloponin continues familiarizing himself with the region he has taken charge of. Recently he singled out three major problems in Caucasus: excessive state funding, a high level of unemployment and corruption. To change the situation the envoy’s plan is to focus on four clusters of development in Caucasus - energy, tourism, agriculture and education. How efficient will Khloponin’s methods turn out to be?
  • Tbilisi in search of money 2010-02-27 22:34 One of the theses of yesterday’s speech delivered by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in the parliament goes as follows: the emigrants are returning to Georgia. The statement sounds doubtful, considering the fact that the statistics on migration is rather disputable. It is not only the Georgian experts that are talking about it; the Statistics Department does not provide any data as well. The president’s statement rather resembles an auto-training session. One of these days, the officials expressed hope to get billions of investments from their former fellow countrymen. As to Mikhail Nikolaevitch, he stated that the authorities are going to announce discounts on real estate property in order to attract the capital of the Georgian expatriate community. So far, the representatives of the construction companies do not say anything about the boom of accommodations acquisition by the former fellow countrymen. 
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Labour Ultimatum for Georgia

2009-07-16 14:13 Finally, the fifth amendment restored the regulation on the payment of at least a double salary for overtime work.

By 14 July the trade unions' draft amendments to the Labour Code were ready. Now the government will agree it with employers. According to Irakly Petriashvili, the amendments will be made step by step, and the first amendments must be implemented by October, said the «Kommersant» radio. According to some preliminary data, the suggestions concern such issues as recruiting and dismissal of citizens, the number of working hours, the rights of pregnant women. However, the morbid issue of unemployment allowances that the government flatly refuses to pay has not been resolved in this draft law.

The amendments have already been criticized by one of the authors of the current Labour Code, ex Minister of Economic Affairs Kakha Bendukidze. In his words, the draft law takes into account the Christian Democrats' suggestions. But it is fully built on populism and has nothing to do with reality. «The amendment of the Labour Code will bring to a null result», believes Bendukidze.

However, Georgia will have to change the discriminatory provisions of its Labour Code, if not under the pressure of the opposition, then under the threat of being deprived of trade preferences in its business with the European Union. The European Commission and the International Labour Organization have made such conditions to the government of the country.

As the Kommersant radio explained, the GSP+ preferential system covers about 6 500 groups of goods exported with a null or minimum customs duty. This privilege is provided to developing or emerging countries with a well-accomplished management system and other institution systems. But an important condition for being included into the GSP+ system is the ratification and application of 27 international conventions of the UN and International Labour Organization.

Will legal regulations be observed, especially during the crisis and underemployment period? This is highly questionable, and Bendukidze is right here. But, of course, the government should not encourage employers in their flouting of the lawful rights of employees. If it is democratic in essence, not for show.

 

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