Monday, October 22, 2007, #201 (1468)

MP says foreigners taking Georgian jobs
By M. Alkhazashvili
(Translated by Diana Dundua)

Deputy chair of the parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee Zurab Butskhrikidze, in an interview with the newspaper Sakartvelos Respublika, stated that about 90 000 new jobs opened up in Georgia in 2007—but a third of them were taken by foreigners.

“Unfortunately, frequently Georgians are not as qualified as foreigners… They know their business better than Georgians do,” Butskhrikidze explains.

Unemployment is often ranked as a top problem facing Georgians, and many choose to work abroad.
 
Butskhrikidze says the government will tackle the problem with training programs to give Georgians a more marketable skill set.

“We hope that the implementation of these programs will solve the problem, at least partially,” he says.



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