What will I do if I speak about right and he will say goodbye?

As you know, Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan instructed that the Labor Code should be subjected to radical reform. During a press conference held on 1 May, Adviser to the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Tadevos Avetisyan touched upon the process, made an interesting observation, saying that the new Labor Code should not fix too many rights of workers and responsibilities of employers. “Workers should be able to agree with the employer. Negotiation art is one of the attributes to the economy”, – said Tadevos Avetisyan, apparently forgetting to mention that the “culture of dialogue was “established in international practice, thanks to strong trade unions, whereas most of the trade unions in existence today are not even aware of that. WomenNet.am tried to figure out how attribute to negotiate with the employers works and for whom “…

According to the National Statistical Service, in 2015 (2016 data not published) the average annual unemployment figure was 243 thousand, so many people have no jobs, while the number of employed was 1 million 72 thousand to 6 thousand people. The NSS data shows that in 2015 48% of our population had no formal employment.

How to regulate these issues will be obvious in the new Labor Code in 9 months. It is time provided for by the Prime Minister to radically reform the legislation regulating labor relations.

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