I was visiting a friend last night and during our conversation he made mention of a diamond processing plant in Armenia that employees Indian labor. I asked him if this was a matter of specialists and he said no, common labor is also Indian, stating that they make $100 a month and send $50 a month home to their families. These are jobs that local labor could easily do.
From that friend’s house, I went to visit some other friends who talked about the new American Embassy construction and how the majority of the common labor are Turks from Turkey, which are making $1,000 a month (though I have hear elsewhere that they were making about $400 a month). He added that there are about 40 Armenian specialists who make a little less than $200 a month. He said they work from 8am to 7pm, get a half-hour lunch and three 5-minute smoking breaks over that 11 hour time period.
In both conversations, the question came up of what the Armenian government was thinking when allowing foreign labor to be imported, when unemployment is so high among the natives? Who is issuing work visas. Plain and simple, we should have laws in place that encourage investors to hire locals.
As for the American Embassy and employing Turks, you would think that the Armenian government would have more sense to stipulate at very least that they will allow a foreign labor force to be imported from anyplace other than Turkey or Azerbaijan.
Mention was made that in the future when Armenia gets better, we will see an influx of Indian and Chinese labor forces here to do jobs that natives could do.
From that friend’s house, I went to visit some other friends who talked about the new American Embassy construction and how the majority of the common labor are Turks from Turkey, which are making $1,000 a month (though I have hear elsewhere that they were making about $400 a month). He added that there are about 40 Armenian specialists who make a little less than $200 a month. He said they work from 8am to 7pm, get a half-hour lunch and three 5-minute smoking breaks over that 11 hour time period.
In both conversations, the question came up of what the Armenian government was thinking when allowing foreign labor to be imported, when unemployment is so high among the natives? Who is issuing work visas. Plain and simple, we should have laws in place that encourage investors to hire locals.
As for the American Embassy and employing Turks, you would think that the Armenian government would have more sense to stipulate at very least that they will allow a foreign labor force to be imported from anyplace other than Turkey or Azerbaijan.
Mention was made that in the future when Armenia gets better, we will see an influx of Indian and Chinese labor forces here to do jobs that natives could do.
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