There Is No Concept of Day Laborers in Armenia, We Are Ready to Help - Prime Minister

In Armenia, we have 626,000 wage earners, 203,000 of whom are in the public sector, leaving 430,000 in the private sector. This was stated today during the Q&A session in the National Assembly by the MP from the Prosperous Armenia faction, Mikayel Melkumyan, addressing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

According to the Prime Minister, for a year and a half, they have been urging people to operate legally, to register their workplace and income. “There is no concept of a day laborer in Armenia; there is a registered worker and an unregistered worker. Under these conditions, those who are registered will feel the advantages of their status because we are finding mechanisms to assist these individuals, and we can locate them,” he said, adding that they can identify where registered workers are employed, how much salary they received, and how much income they lost, so that they know how much support they can get.

“Day laborers who generally live in the shadows, when everything was good, said they didn’t care about that law, about the government’s calls and regulations, and they will have identification problems. However, we believe that they are our citizens and we must take steps to support them, otherwise how can we identify them, we cannot ascertain,” he stated.