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title: "Violation of Labor Rights"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/violation-of-labor-rights-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Labor rights violation: interference by violence, coercion and non-compliance with a decision. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-11-07"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Violation of Labor Rights

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/violation-of-labor-rights-en

## Impairment of Freedom of Labor

The criminal-law protection of labor rights is built on two compositions. The first of them is the impairment of freedom of labor: interference, by violence or the threat of violence, in any type of lawful work activity. This crime is punished by a fine or corrective work for up to one year, or imprisonment for up to two years. The essence of the composition lies in the fact that a person is hindered in lawful activity — the interference stands opposed to the person's free choice of occupation. Lawful work activity is a broad concept: it covers every activity a person conducts on the basis of law, and interference in any direction — starting work, continuing it, or the process of performance — falls within the scope of this norm. Violence and its threat are necessary signs of qualification here: without them the act does not create this composition.

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### What is impairment of freedom of labor?

Interference by violence or the threat of violence in any lawful work activity.

### What does the second norm regulate?

Coercion to write a statement of dismissal on one's own initiative, and non-compliance with a court decision on reinstatement.

### What punishment is threatened?

Under the first composition — a fine, corrective work up to one year or imprisonment up to two years; under the second — a fine or imprisonment up to two years with deprivation up to three years or without it.

### What is the difference between the norms?

The first requires violence or a threat; the second covers other forms of pressure and non-compliance with a decision.