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Editorial | Georgia’s government needs to act to protect workers

by OC Media

•2 min read

The latest death of a construction worker in Georgia demonstrates that the government must stand up for the rights and lives of its citizens. With labour reforms on what seems like indefinite hold, the government now needs to act. Twenty-six-year-old Jarji Janjalashvili died on 9 February after falling from the fifth floor of the construction site in Tbilisi he was working on. This tragic accident is far from unique in Georgia, which deregulated the labour market in the mid-2000s. Whil

Chiatura Manganese Mines

Opinion | Georgia’s labour reforms do little to fix the country’s deadly workplaces

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•4 min read

From 2007 to January 2017, 437 people died and 716 were injured at work in Georgia. A lack of safe workplaces is one of the greatest challenges facing workers in Georgia, and one the authorities are failing to rise to. The mining sector is perhaps the most affected sector in this regard. According to the trade unions, 24 miners have died in Tkibuli’s coal mines over the last seven years, while nine manganese miners have been killed in Chiatura over the last five. [Read on OC Media: Mine c