---
title: "Employee Handbook Drafting"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/labor-and-employment-law-en/employee-handbook-drafting-en"
field: "Labor & Employment Law"
description: "Employee handbook drafting in Georgia: the Article 23 content list, contract incorporation and the statutory floor. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-15"
updated: "2026-10-19"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Employee Handbook Drafting

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/labor-and-employment-law-en/employee-handbook-drafting-en

The drafting of internal labour rules in Georgia is attached directly to the statute, and one terminological circumstance must be cleared away at the very first step: some older sources refer to the internal rules by a different article number, whereas in the Labour Code currently in force the internal rules are codified by Article 23 — even the second part of Article 47 refers to the internal rules by that current numbering. The three pillars of this page are: Article 23 — the internal-rules norm itself; Article 47 — the condition of its enforceability; and Article 1 — the lower boundary of its content. The acknowledgement-page and disclaimer regime of United States law does not exist in the Georgian system — the enforceability of internal rules derives from their incorporation into the contract, not from a formal act of confirming awareness.

## What the internal rules are and what they define

Under Article 23 of the Code the employer has the right to establish internal labour rules and is obliged to communicate them to the employees. The internal rules are a written document by which may be defined: the duration of the working week and the start and end times of work, the duration of shifts; the duration of breaks; the time, place and procedure of remuneration; the duration and granting procedure of paid and unpaid leave; rules for the protection of working conditions; the types of incentives and liability and the rules of their application; and the procedure for reviewing applications and complaints. Taking account of the specifics of the work, special rules may also be defined — the list is not closed, but every additional rule must preserve compliance with the law.

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### Which article regulates the internal rules?

Article 23; the old article numbering survives in old sources and no longer applies.

### How do they become enforceable?

By incorporation into the contract — under Article 47 only such rules support dismissal for breach.

### What bounds the content?

The statutory minimum — a worsening provision is void.