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Podcast | Surviving on $8 a month: is Georgia on track for a real living wage?

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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Georgian Dream MP Irakli Zarkua has proposed expelling foreign ambassadors critical of the Georgian government, with particular emphasis on German Ambassador Peter Fischer. Zarkua criticised foreign ambassadors on Tuesday while speaking to reporters in parliament. ‘This is my subjective opinion: ambassadors who are being destructive, replacing radicals and acting against the state, I believe they should be expelled’, he said, according to IPN . He first listed British Ambassador Gareth Ward a

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