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B.
Recommendations
99.
The Working Group recommends that the Government:
(a)
Strengthen the implementation of the chapter on business and human
rights in the human rights national action plan by including indicators that are
specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound, allocating adequate
resources and improving the effectiveness of coordination structures to ensure that
relevant ministries and agencies can deliver on their responsibility under the chapter.
These structures should enable input from all relevant parts of the Government and
other stakeholders, meet regularly and provide a forum where the Government can be
held to account;
(b)
Develop, in meaningful consultation with all stakeholders and in line
with the Working Group’s guidance, a stand-alone national action plan on business
and human rights to implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights in a comprehensive manner;
(c)
Ensure that the amendments of the Labour Code, once adopted by the
parliament, are immediately implemented and effectively monitored, including in
relation to working hours, weekly rest, night work, payment of overtime hours and
work on public holidays;
(d)
Adopt measures to combat all discriminatory practices in the private
sector and to address challenges in integrating and retaining discriminated individuals
or groups in the labour market;
(e)
Adopt effective measures to implement the principle of equal pay for
work of equal value, in order to close the gender wage gap, and to consistently review
the wages of men and women in all sectors;
(f)
Integrate a gender perspective in all measures to promote business
respect for human rights and corporate accountability in line with the Working
Group’s gender guidance for the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;22
(g)
Adopt effective measures to prevent and address sector-specific risks
related to the health and safety of workers and their labour rights, especially in
construction and mining sites. The Government should ensure that the Labour
Conditions Inspection Department is adequately staffed and that its staff receives the
necessary training and resources to inspect all human rights pertaining to the
workplace and to safety and working conditions in all sectors, with an emphasis on its
preventive role;
(h)
Implement training programmes to empower workers, especially those
in vulnerable situations, such as migrant workers, to exercise their rights, including
the rights to create and join trade unions and to collective bargaining;
(i)
Adopt a more holistic approach to environmental impact assessments
and monitoring that takes into account sector-specific risks and the differentiated
impacts on groups at heightened risk of business-related human rights abuses. In
relation to the hydropower sector, this should include stricter requirements that take
into account the cumulative and holistic impact assessments;
(j)
Ensure the effective enforcement of the regulations providing for the
equal and meaningful participation of rights-holders in environmental decisionmaking from an early stage, and throughout project implementation, including access
to information and transparency at scoping and licencing phases;
(k)
Include human rights criteria in State public procurement practices and
economic diplomacy, including export credits and trade support for Georgian
companies as a means of promoting business respect for human rights;
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