On September 10, 2014 Heriknaz Tigranyan, Legal Adviser of Transparency International Anticorruption Center (TIAC) was a panelist at a discussion hosted by The Media Center. The discussion addressed the planned amendments to RA Labor Code, the problems in the sphere and the issues that need to be solved. Though TIAC was not involved in the discussions of amendment to RA Labor Code, Heriknaz Tigranyan as a practicing lawyer submitted recommendations based on the issues she recurrently encountered in her practice. In her opinion the draft was commendable. The norms that complied with the reviewed European Social Charter were unequivocally adoptable. Tigranyan reflected on some issues that were not tackled in the draft and some proposed issues that were not acceptable from the point of view of employee.

The current Labor Code was adopted in November 2004, which came into force in June 2005. After it came into effect, the Labor Code was amended 17 times, including in 2010. However there is again a need to amend the Code, conditioned by several reasons. First of all numerous issues arose while putting the Code into practice. Some misinterpretation was caused since the provisions of legislation were ambiguous. Adopting amendments will lead to a new stage regulating employer-employee relations.

Other panelists of the discussion were Tadevos Avetisyan, Head of the Department of Labour and Employment at the RA Ministry of Labour and Social Issues, Boris Kharatyan, Deputy Head of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia and Narek Nersisyan, representative of the RA Agro Trade Union.

See the details in Armenian on the website of Media Center.