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17.09.2021
Issues on Protection of Labor Rights Discussed
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On September 17, the members of the RA NA Standing Committee on Labor and Social Affairs had a meeting with the representatives of the Worker Rights Consortium Member NGOs to discuss the program The Process of Improving Data Base Policies in the Sphere of Labor Rights. It is part of the program Data for Accountable and Transparent Action (DATA), which is carried out by another consortium through the U.S. Agency for International Development. As the Executive Director of the NGO Armavir Development Center Naira Arakelyan has noted, the goal of the program is to improve employer-employee, making them legal relations, by which the citizens’ labor rights would be protected.

Within the framework of the program in the marzes of Armenia awareness works and surveys will be carried out top clarify to what extent are the workers’ rights protected. According to the speaker, the works in the sphere are many, this is need to improve legislative reforms. As the guests informed, social surveys are held among several hundred hired workers to find out the extent of the protection of labor rights. The participants of the program cooperate with the Health and Labor Inspectorate, as well as the Trade Unions and Employers. At the end of the work the Consortium will prepare a report, which will also be submitted to the Parliamentary Committee. The duration of the program is one year. The Head of the Health and Labor Inspectorate Hakob Avagyan has touched upon the problems of the sphere, noting that it is necessary to reach such a regulation that the labor contracts being signed in Armenia be electronic and it will be accessible for the Inspectorate during several minutes. Thus, it is necessary to make legislative amendments. And as a best effort for that work style the introduction of the electronic reports to the tax bodies was noted.

On behalf of the Committee, the Committee Chair Heriknaz Tigranyan expressed readiness to support all the programs, which will be directed to the improvement of the legislation and the protection of the citizens’ labor rights.

The MPs also raised the issues of protection of labor rights for the citizens carrying out seasonal and other temporary works.

The participants of the discussion referred to the problems existing in the sphere, considered necessary the implementation of the steps aimed at their solution. A decision was also made that the Health and Labor Inspectorate will periodically submit to the Committee statistics, where the data on the violation of the citizens’ labor rights will be summed up.


17.09.2021
Eduard Aghajanyan Meets with Head of EU Delegation to Armenia
The Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Eduard Aghajanyan met with the Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Armenia, the Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin.Welcoming the guest, Eduard Aghajanyan highlighted the different projects implemented by the European Union in Ar...

17.09.2021
Issues on Project “Protection of Human Rights in Biomedicine” Debated
On September 17, the Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs Taguhi Tovmasyan met with the Head of Bioethics Unit of the Council of Europe Laurence Lwoff and the Officer of the Protection of Human Rights in Biomedicine project of the Council of Europe ...

17.09.2021
Members of Delegation of the Republic of France Visit Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and Yerablur Pantheon
On September 17, the members of the Delegation of the Republic of France being in Armenia visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex and Yerablur Pantheon accompanied by the Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee Arman Yeghoyan and the Committee member Sona Ghazaryan.At Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex...

17.09.2021
RA NA Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs Endorses Nominated Candidate for Vacancy of Member of RA Central Bank Council
At September 17 extraordinary sitting, moderated by Gevorg Papoyan, the RA NA Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs debated the issue on Artak Manukyan’s candidacy for the vacancy of the member of the RA Central Bank Council presented by the Civil Contract Faction and on propo...

17.09.2021
Government Designs to Build Sisian-Kajaran Alternative Road Section
At September 17 parliamentary briefings, the member of the NA Civil Contract Faction Andranik Kocharyan, touching upon the problems of Goris-Kapan road section, documented that the deployment of our border troops, the Azerbaijani forces and the Russian border guards in that section solves problems r...

17.09.2021
Andranik Kocharyan’s Commentary on Process of Demarcation and Delimitation
On September 17, the deputies from the NA Civil Contract Faction Andranik Kocharyan, Heriknaz Tigranyan and Artur Hovahnnisyan participated in the parliamentary briefings following the regular sittings. Answering to the journalist’s question, whether there is an agreement satisfying the Armenian sid...

17.09.2021
National Assembly Joins 100 Houses in Artsakh Project
On the initiative of the RA President Alen Simonyan, 10mln AMD was allocated to 100 Houses in Artsakh project jointly carried out by the Public TV Company and Artsakh to Live Foundation from the state financial means allocated to the National Assembly.One of the houses envisaged for the Artsakh peop...

17.09.2021
Next Stage of Vaccinations in National Assembly Held
The vaccination is considered to be the only way to fight against the pandemic both in the whole world and in Armenia. Active efforts continue in that direction. The RA National Assembly, highlighting the only effective way to fight against the pandemic, carried out the next stage of vaccinations. B...

17.09.2021
NA Deputies, State Servants and Employees of Staff Monetary Awarded on 30th Anniversary of RA Independence
Pursuant to Article 5.2.12 and.22 of the Constitutional Law – the Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly, by the order of the RA NA President Alen Simonyan, the deputies of the National Assembly, the state servants and the employees of the staff of the National Assembly were encouraged with lum...

17.09.2021
It is Obvious for International Community that a Number of Violations of International Law Norms Were Carried out by Azerbaijan: Aram Vardevanyan
On September 17, during the parliamentary briefings, the journalist of the Public TV Company addressed a question to the NA Armenia Faction. The issue referred to instituting proceedings against Azerbaijan in the UN International Court of Justice by Armenia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of ...

17.09.2021
Hayk Mamijanyan: The Countries Can Reach the Phase of Demarcation and Delimitation Only in Case, When They Don’t Have Any Problem with Each Other
At September 17 parliamentary briefings, the Secretary of the RA NA With Honor Faction Hayk Mamijanyan, answering to the journalist’s question on the works to be done by parliament in the demarcation and delimitation processes, noted: “As a legislative body of the parliamentary country the National ...

17.09.2021
Parliamentary Briefings
The NA Deputy Speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan from the Armenia Faction and the deputy of the Faction Aram Vardevanyan participated in the parliamentary briefings following the regular sittings of the RA National Assembly.The NA Deputy Speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan has underlined that the security crisis i...

17.09.2021
RA NA With Honor Faction to Initiate Creation of Inquiry Committee
The Secretary of the RA NA With Honor Faction Hayk Mamijanyan and the deputy Anna Mkrtchyan took part in the parliamentary briefings held on September 17.Hayk Mamijanyan reminded that the Faction would initiate creation of Parliamentary Inquiry Committee, which would study the issues on managing the...



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