General Collective Agreement for 2006-2007 years
General
Collective agreement determining coordinated positions and joint activity
for 2006-2007 years in the area of socio-economic policy and socio-labor
relations of the country was signed between the Cabinet of Ministers
of Azerbaijan Republic, Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation and the
National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers) Organizations of
Azerbaijan Republic.
This agreement has a great importance in development of socio-economic
policy, socio-labor relations in the country, determining main directions
of joint activity, obligations of partners in this sphere on the basis
of mutual cooperation of appropriate trade unions and employers unions
which represent and protect interests and positions of government, employees
and employers.
General Collective Agreement contains joint activity of parties, their
duties and obligations in following directions:
- In the area of economic policy: improvement of productivity and competitiveness
of enterprises, amelioration of investment climate in the country, agriculture
development, enlargement of youth and women entrepreneurship activity,
ensuring of signing of labor contracts, ensuring of national interests
in transnational companies.
- In the area of remuneration of labor, incomes and living standards
of population: permanent rise of incomes of population, increase of
minimal salaries till level of living wage, activity on legalization
of remuneration of labor.
- In the area of labor market development and population employment:
regulation of labor market and labor migration, creation of new workplaces
and improvement of quality of existent workplaces, development of personnel
potential.
- In social area: realization of social defense measures for families
of scanty means and families having children and controlling, increase
of nourishment of children in infant schools, provision of children
from needy and preferential families by free nourishment and clothes,
improvement of health protection services, development of social infrastructure,
insurance and pension systems.
- In the area of labor rights defense, labor protection, technical and
ecological security: preparation of programs on labor protection and
security, improvement of mechanisms increasing interests and responsibility
of employer in the sphere of labor protection, observance of norms stipulated
in labor legislation by employer.
- In the area of social partnership: elaboration and realization of
socio-economic policy, joint participation of parties in projects of
national programs, laws and other documents in the sphere of social-labor
relations, employment of population, migration and social guarantees,
realization of discussions and consultations.
Parties of General Collective Agreement taking into account that basic
goals of socio-economic policy consist in prevention of unemployment,
reduction of poverty, provision of people by merited living standards
and improvement of living conditions providing independent development,
prevention of social inequality, increase of incomes, especially salaries
of population and in solution of other problems declared their readiness
to make efforts for development of mutual ties and activity on the basis
of social partnership, for regulation of social-labor relations by collective
agreements and contracts, to realize appropriate obligations and duties
