What Modifying a Contract Means
Modifying an employment contract begins in the Georgian Labour Code with one clear principle: essential terms are changed only by agreement of the parties. By notice, the employer may only specify individual circumstances of performing the work that do not change the essential terms. The boundary between these two regimes is precisely where the practical task of modification is won or lost: a clarification happens by one notice, an essential change — by agreement.
The law also specifies what is not deemed an essential change: a change of the place of work, where reaching the new workplace from home and back by available public transport takes no more than 3 hours a day and does not require disproportionate costs; and a change of the start or end time of work by no more than 90 minutes. Changing both circumstances simultaneously is already deemed essential. There is a single exception — a change conditioned by an amendment of Georgian legislation requires no consent; and a missing essential term is defined with the employee's consent.