guide the reform of the social protection system, with the following areas to be considered as a priority in order to promote family well-being: • Child and family benefits; • Pregnancy benefits; • Sickness benefits; • Short-term and long-term unemployment benefits; • Benefits related to occupational injuries; • Incapacity benefit; • Benefit related to the death of the breadwinner. 6 Minimum wage Legal Review The Labour Code does not regulate the manner through which the minimum wage should be fixed. There is one old legal source regulating the minimum wage in Georgia. Ordinance No. 351 of the President of Georgia on the Minimum Wage, adopted on 4 June 1999, defines that in order to achieve the state’s regulation of labour remuneration and to protect em­ployees’ social interests, the minimum monthly salary shall be 20 GEL. Technically speak­ing, the minimum wage is defined by Georgian legislation, but the amount of the minimum wage is outdated, it does not constitute an accurate reflection of current wage levels in the labour market and has no relevance or importance for the labour market regulation in Georgia(see in detail third party reports below). The initial version of the labour law reform package included a provision concerning min­imum wage fixing. The draft provision stated that the mechanism for minimum wage set­ting, the scope of application for minimum wages, and the regulation related to wage pro­tection should be determined by a special law on wages. However, at the preliminary stage of consultations with social partners/government(before the draft package was formally registered with the parliament), the draft provision was removed from the draft text of the amendments to the Labour Code. Current international developments view minimum wages as a tool to address poverty and inequality. According to the CEACR,“after two decades marked by a certain disinterest in minimum wage policy as a tool for social protection and poverty reduction, the ILO has noticed a renewed interest in this issue since the early 2000s.” The CEACR notes that the 76