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Law Project Amending the Labour Code Discussed in Parliament

November 21, 2005

Law Project Amending the Labour Code Discussed in Parliament

Tbilisi, 18 November. Black Sea Press. IA ‘News – Georgia’. On November the 18th, the Parliamentary Committee on Public Health and Social Affairs reviewed a law proposal prepared by the Georgian government and put forward by Vakhtang Megrelishvili, the Deputy Minister of Public Health, Labour and Social Affairs.     

As explained in the Parliament to ‘News – Georgia’, the proposal envisions a working week of 48 hours and fifteen days of paid leave a year. When an employee is summoned for service in the army, the contract of employment is rescinded automatically. In the cases of illness or pregnancy, an employer would have the right to end the contract without notice.  

The mentioned proposal received fierce criticism from the Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee and leader of the ‘Right Opposition’ party David Saganelidze. “The project reflects absolutely none of the promises made to the citizens of Georgia during the ‘Rose Revolution’” – he stated – “This proposal legalizes a relation of slavery in the sphere of employment.” In his words, “such law project does not even deserve to be discussed in the Georgian Parliament.”

Chairman of the Committee Gigi Tsereteli and the Parliamentary Secretary of the Georgian government Gia Khuroshvili are of the opinion that the general principles of this Labour Code project should be adopted during the first reading, but only under the condition that the opposition’s criticisms are to be taken into consideration when discussing the proposal’s details.

Vakhtang Megrelishvil, Deputy Minister of Public Health, Labour and Social Affairs on his own turn, noted that the current proposal “might be acceptable to some, to others not, but I do believe that, unless prohibited by law, all is allowed.”

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