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Some aspects of protection of labor freedom in higher education institution

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Shota Veshapidze

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

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Lasha Mgeladze

PHD, economics Assistant-Professor Technical University of Georgia

Abstract

The successful implementation of the activities of the higher educational institution, its prestige and quality depend to a significant extent on the qualifications of the academic staff and the skills of knowledge transfer. Freedom of labor is its main foundation. Therefore, the subject of our research in this article is the provision of freedom of work for academic staff.

The purpose of the study is to reveal the challenges of ensuring the freedom of work of professors, associate and assistant professors, as well as academic staff as a whole, and ways to solve them. The object of research is the international and Georgian legislation on the regulation of labor relations, its protection. For this purpose, we used the methods of analysis, synthesis and critical evaluation of the implementation of the laws regulating the freedom of labor of academic staff in practice.

At the higher educational institutions of Georgia, the practice of signing a labor contract for a specified period of time is established for the contest winners and also then re-announcing the vacant position after the expiration of same contract.

On the one hand, such an approach is ineffective in terms of content and on the other hand, it contradicts the requirements of the international and Georgian legislation, because it increases and contributes to the emergence of threats to academic staff, restrictions on their freedom , manipulation, favoritism, nepotism, and corruption.

According to Article 12 of the Labor Code of Georgia, the winning staff must sign a lifetime contract. There is no other objective circumstance that justifies the conclusion of a fixed-term employment contract. Accordingly, the requirements of the law on higher education, which concern the holding of periodic re-competitions, contradict the organic law of the labor code, which itself indicates that it must comply with its requirements.

Based on all of the above, increasing the effectiveness of the education system, perfecting the personnel system, promoting teaching by qualified teachers for students as much as possible, bring the Georgian educational legislation closer to the best practices of the European education system, it is advisable for higher educational institutions to get rid of restrictions on the freedom of work of academic staff and to comply with the requirements of international and Georgian labor legislation.

Keywords: System of education, Academic staff, freedom of labor, labor contract, effectiveness of teaching.

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35. CONSTITUTION OF GEORGIA

36. LAW OF GEORGIA ON HIGHER EDUCATION

37. ORGANIC LAW OF GEORGIA – LABOUR CODE OF GEORGIA

38. DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

39. INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

40. THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER.

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