{"id":12092,"date":"2015-09-23T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2024-04-24T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T18:01:45","slug":"fla-and-four-affiliated-companies-call-for-meaningful-minimum-wage-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/fla-and-four-affiliated-companies-call-for-meaningful-minimum-wage-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"FLA and four member companies call for meaningful minimum wage in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rich-text section\" data-dc-animate>\n    <div class=\" fade-animate \"  data-dc-animate-ref=\"fadeBlocks[]\">\n        \n\n<p>The never-increased 90s-era monthly minimum wage of 20 lari (around $8.50) for private-sector workers in Georgia is grossly insufficient to maintain a decent standard of living in that country.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Clean Clothes Campaign&nbsp;estimates that a living wage for a family of four is nearly 65 times that amount, while the&nbsp;US State Department&nbsp;reports that the average public sector worker earns around 60 times that amount, nearly 1200 lari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late August, the Fair Labor Association and four of its company members that are sourcing (or considering sourcing) from Georgia wrote a letter to the Georgian Minister of Labor, expressing strong support for the setting of a fair minimum wage for workers in Georgia\u2019s growing apparel sector.\u00a0 Signatories to the letter included representatives from adidas Group, New Balance, Nike, and Puma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe strongly encourage the government to establish a meaningful minimum wage, along with other basic protections for workers, such as effective labor inspections,\u201d the letter stated.&nbsp; \u201cLegal minimum wages should be negotiated in consultation with workers and their trade unions, civil society, employer associations, and suppliers.&nbsp;&nbsp; As a confirmation of its intent, we encourage the government to ratify ILO conventions 26 and 131 concerning the setting of minimum wages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"location":[99],"members":[312,341,327,321],"partner":[],"class_list":["post-12092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-wage","location-ge","members-adidas","members-new-balance","members-nike","members-puma"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26368,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions\/26368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"members","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/members?post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"partner","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairlabor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner?post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}