What Wage Dispute Resolution Means
Resolving wage disputes follows a refined procedural ladder defined by the Georgian Labour Code — this page is about that procedure, not about computing the pay itself. Under Article 61 of the Code, a dispute is a disagreement arising during the employment relationship whose resolution is in the lawful interests of the parties to the contract. A dispute is born when one party sends the other written notice of the disagreement, and for pay matters the Code expressly names as grounds the violation of an individual employment contract, a collective agreement or working conditions, as well as disagreements connected with essential terms.
The first practical lesson of the procedure is this: an oral intervention creates no legal dispute. A dispute arises only when a party addresses the other in writing, and it is precisely that notice which starts the deadlines moving. A wage demand should therefore always be put in written form — with the exact amount, the period and the basis of the computation.