Trade unions against business: the issue of a 40-hour working week is being discussed in Georgia
The decree of the Government of Georgia, which narrowed the range of professions that must work more than 40 hours a week, caused fierce disputes between representatives of the business sector and trade unions.
The business sector is dissatisfied with the exclusion of such areas as construction, trade, and catering facilities from the list of irregular working weeks. According to entrepreneurs, now they will have to slow down the work process, since employees have to work 40 hours a week instead of 48, as it was before.
Business representatives intend to start consultations with the government, which caused a negative reaction from trade unions.
"We are concerned about the hype on the part of business, which is associated with a special working regime and the restriction of 48-hour working hours," the head of the United Trade Unions of Georgia, Irakli Petriashvili, said at a briefing on Wednesday.
According to him, the trade unions have done a lot of work to limit the areas of activity that require an irregular schedule.
"The forty-hour working week is not invented by trade unions. This norm is taken from medical and sanitary norms, based on labor productivity, so the rest of the justification associated with the greed of employers has nothing to do with reality, poverty and desolation of business or economy", Petriashvili said.
To date, according to the government's decision, only television workers, food producers, fishermen, workers engaged in the supply of water, electricity, oxygen, cleaning services, transport, warehouses, meteorologists, as well as health workers, rescue services, investigators, security services, can have a 48-hour working week. prison administrations, customs officers and social services and education.
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Trade unions against business: the issue of a 40-hour working week is being discussed in Georgia
The decree of the Government of Georgia, which narrowed the range of professions that must work more than 40 hours a week, caused fierce disputes between representatives of the business sector and trade unions.
The business sector is dissatisfied with the exclusion of such areas as construction, trade, and catering facilities from the list of irregular working weeks. According to entrepreneurs, now they will have to slow down the work process, since employees have to work 40 hours a week instead of 48, as it was before.
Business representatives intend to start consultations with the government, which caused a negative reaction from trade unions.
"We are concerned about the hype on the part of business, which is associated with a special working regime and the restriction of 48-hour working hours," the head of the United Trade Unions of Georgia, Irakli Petriashvili, said at a briefing on Wednesday.
According to him, the trade unions have done a lot of work to limit the areas of activity that require an irregular schedule.
"The forty-hour working week is not invented by trade unions. This norm is taken from medical and sanitary norms, based on labor productivity, so the rest of the justification associated with the greed of employers has nothing to do with reality, poverty and desolation of business or economy", Petriashvili said.
To date, according to the government's decision, only television workers, food producers, fishermen, workers engaged in the supply of water, electricity, oxygen, cleaning services, transport, warehouses, meteorologists, as well as health workers, rescue services, investigators, security services, can have a 48-hour working week. prison administrations, customs officers and social services and education.
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