Labour Dispute: Health Damage at the Workplace
Health damage at the workplace becomes the subject of a court dispute in Georgia through a precisely defined mechanism: the employer's duty of compensation, the written form of the dispute, the one-year limitation, and civil liability running in parallel with the administrative penalty. The United States system of exclusive workers' compensation does not apply here — in Georgia the employer's liability is direct and is enforced through the court.
Four anchors carry the dispute: the compensation norm of Article 45, the concept of a dispute in Article 61, the time limit of Article 74, and the two-tier liability of Article 81.