Resources: Armenia

  1. Third congress of the Republican Union of Employers of Armenia

    08 July 2014

    The third congress of the Republican Union of Employers of Armenia ended its work in Yerevan on July 8.

  2. Roadmap for Armenia’s accession to Customs Union signed

    24 December 2013

    The roadmap for Armenia’s accession to the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan was signed Tuesday, Dec 24, at the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, according to RIA Novosti.

  3. Trade union leaders meet to discuss informal employment

    23 July 2013

    The Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-PERC) in cooperation with the ILO organized a subregional meeting for trade union leaders focusing on informal employment. The meeting took place in Kyrgyzstan’s resort of Issyk-Kul on July 23-25.

  4. Methodology for assessing decent work to help improve working conditions in Armenia

    07 May 2013

    The Decent Work Country Profile presented in Yerevan on May 7 will help improve working conditions in Armenia, said Tadevos Avetisian, the head of the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry’s labour and employment department.

  5. EU to allocate €1.9 billion to Eastern Parnership's members

    19 February 2013

  6. Decent Work Country Profile ARMENIA.

    17 December 2012

    Decent work is central to efforts to reduce poverty and is a means for achieving equitable, inclusive and sustainable development.

  7. Breaking barriers: Letting people with disabilities into the labour market (full version)

    28 September 2012

    After the break up of the Soviet Union, life for many people in Armenia changed radically and new opportunities opened up for many. But for people with disabilities, it was not the case. During the Soviet period, they found work inside a closed system of “social enterprises.” Now they are truly “invisible” in the workforce. The ILO’s pilot project in Armenia is breaking down old stereotypes about disability as well as the barriers that keep them from work.

  8. Artem Asatryan was appointed Armenia’s Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

    16 June 2012

  9. Yerevan hosts second national conference on social partnership

    12 October 2011

    On October 11-12 the second national conference on social partnership, with a central theme “Social Partnership and Occupational Safety and Health” took place in Yerevan at the initiative of the Republican Union of Employers of Armenia.

  10. Tajik remittances from Russia top 700m dollars in second quarter of 2011

    11 October 2011

    In the second quarter of 2011 alone, 742m dollars was sent through money transfer from Russia to Tajikistan, the Central Bank of Russia has announced.