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Operating a private employment agency without the mandatory notification (Art. 42³)

How much is the fine in lari?

Article 42³ does not name a lari sum. It sets the penalty as a multiple of the minimum salary — 20 minimum salaries, and 50 for a repeat. The lari figure appears in the decision as the result of a calculation, so it is worth checking what unit and what value that calculation was based on.

We filed the notification late. Does that remove liability?

The article attaches the penalty to carrying on the activity without the notification, that is, to the period during which the agency operated while no notification existed. What matters is therefore the date on the protocol and the date on which submission of the notification is evidenced. Comparing those two dates is often the decisive element of the case.

Is the fine imposed on the company or on its director?

The article ties liability to carrying on the activity of a private employment agency. The practical question is who was carrying on that activity and who the protocol is drawn up against. If the addressee named in the protocol does not match the factual position, that is a separate point and it is raised within the same case.

Does a foreign recruitment company operating in Georgia fall under this article?

The article itself draws no distinction by the origin of the operator: it asks whether the activity of a private employment agency was carried on without the notification required by Article 32(1) of the Law "On Employment". Whether that duty arose for a particular entity is a question for that Law rather than for Article 42³, and it is the first point to establish in the file.

4 min·22 Aug 2026

What Article 42³ actually covers

Article 42³ of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia protects one narrow obligation. A private employment agency may carry on its activity only once the mandatory notification provided for by Article 32(1) of the Law of Georgia "On Employment" has been made. Where the agency operates without that notification, the activity itself completes the offence. Liability does not turn on whether a particular jobseeker was harmed, whether a placement contract was signed, or how many people were actually placed.

That narrowness matters, because it decides what a defence has to be about. Submissions about service quality, the absence of complaints, or the agency's good faith do not answer the charge — the charge concerns a missing notification. Conversely, evidence that the notification was in fact made, or that the activity in question is not what the Law "On Employment" describes as the activity of a private employment agency, goes directly to an element of the offence.

Updated: 14 Oct 2026