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Working 24 hours straight in Georgia’s supermarkets

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•9 min read

With 24-hour shifts, collective responsibility, and heavy surveillance, employees of Georgian supermarkets complain of being exploited. While supermarket owners justify the hard working conditions with a need to improve customer service, trade unions say the problem lies in a lack of regulations. Cashier, storekeeper, and cleaner Twenty-five-year-old Gvantsa (not her real name) started working at supermarket chain Nikora several months ago. She earns ₾450 ($165) a month working two 24-ho

Armenia

Unscrupulous employers are taking advantage of desperate Armenian jobseekers

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

Faced with staggering unemployment and unscrupulous employers, young people in Armenia, including graduates, are forced to work obscene hours for low (or no) pay to get a foot through the door in the country’s labour market. [Read in Armenian — Հոդվածը հայերեն կարդացեք] Twenty-four-year-old Klavdia Yeghiazaryan recently graduated as a dentist from Yerevan State Medical University. Immediately upon graduating, she began to look for work in her chosen field. Knowing perfectly well the state