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Georgia’s minimum wage has been stuck at $8 a month since 1999, but in recent years, unions and civil society organisations have called on the government to raise the country’s minimum wage to match standards of decent living in Georgia.
This week on the Caucasus Digest, we speak to Jeff Vize from Human Rights Watch about the background of the current minimum wage, and Raisa Liparteliani from the Georgian Trade Union Confederation, about a new draft law that could potentially institute a liveable minimum wage.
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Kakha Kaladze also emphasised that it was ‘completely incomprehensible’ for someone to work at city hall while simultaneously criticising its policies.
The miners are calling on the government to step in to resume manganese mining in the central Georgian town of Chiatura.
On the same day, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó spoke with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan.
Georgia’s fifth president Salome Zourabichvili originally submitted her suit to the court in July 2024.
