Late Wednesday evening, about 50 students blockaded the entrance to the Government building in Vilnius to protest what they feel was the hurried approval of a new liberal Labour Code.
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After six months of debates, Lithuania’s Seimas (parliament) on Tuesday voted on a new and highly disputed Labour Code, which, if signed into law by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, will come into effect in 2017.
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The new Labour Code and Social Model that Lithuania’s ruling coalition plan to push through before the end of their term is drawing both criticism and praise. A range of leading experts give their view of whether it is a great step forward, or backwards. […]
Discussions surrounding Lithuania’s Labour Code reform is part of the global trend where capital is challenging workers’ rights and pushing to transfer all risks associated with business cycles onto labour, according to a Linköping University professor who analysed the discourse of both the advocates and opponents of the reform. […]
About 300 people organized by Lithuanian trade unions gathered to protest the new Labour Code, which critics say will narrow the social benefits for employees.
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The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) has passed a set of legal amendments design to prevent gender-based discrimination in the workplace and to make existing Lithuanian discrimination laws more similar to European Union law.
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The State Labour Inspectorate (VDI) has concluded that the Uber ride-sharing service’s relationship with its partner drivers cannot be considered a work relationship.
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The purpose of a labour code is to distribute risks of possible crises between employers and employees and Lithuania’s new Labour Code draft disproportionally favours employers, said Sweden’s Linköping University professor emeritus Charles Woolfson. Woolfson, […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on Social Affairs and Labour, which is debating a package of laws of the Labour Code reform, has proposed a provision that would have businesses share at least a fourth of their profits with employees.
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Lithuania’s leading business representative body has said that the proposed new labour code is so dysfunctional and unsatisfactory it would be better if it was not be enacted at all. “All the issues had been […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said that an agreement has been reached with the leaders of all of the Seimas‘ parliamentary groups on the adoption of a so-called new social model, a package of laws including a new Labour Code, by July. […]
The Lithuanian government and parliament groups have agreed to set up an unemployment fund. The money would be used to pay benefits to people who lose jobs after working at least three years for the same employer. […]
The Lithuanian parliament has finished debating a Labour Code reform package and approved the draft document, ending an important stage in the process liberalizing the country’s labour market. […]
Lithuanian trade unions will stage a protest action outside the government buildings on Friday to demand, among other things, better conditions for working parents. […]
The Lithuanian parliament will hold three plenary sittings a week in May and June instead of the usual two in an effort to adopt all the legislation in the s-called new social model package by the end of the spring session. […]
Trade Unions and employers have united in condemning the new Labour Code adopted by Lithuania’s parliament saying it is chaotic, with employers claiming it will lead to a fall-off in investment and job creation. Employers […]
The Seimas defined different types of employment contracts and a new regulation of these contracts as part of continuing debates on a new Labour Code on Tuesday. […]
Inflexible labour relations and the absence of any immigration policy are the major obstacles to Lithuania’s economic growth, the country’s biggest employer association believes. The Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists has drafted a report on business […]
Investors’ Forum handed out its annual awards to companies that contributed most to improving Lithuania’s investment and business environment. Danske Bank was awarded on Friday as “investor of the year” for its new IT service […]
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