Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defense and the Lithuanian Labor Exchange have created a special database, the Retired Soldiers’ Bank, to provide an opportunity for employers to hire retired troops. […]
On February 8 the government made it easier to employ specialists from third countries in Lithuania, a list of 27 professions in high demand in Lithuania was released. Opponents warn that easily allowing cheap labour […]
Lithuania’s government on Wednesday gave a green light to hiring foreign specialists of certain fields, however, some opposition politicians warn that this could pave way for cheaper labor force that will stop the increase of wages for Lithuanians. […]
Youth unemployment in Lithuania has shrunk significantly over the last few years. Specialists say, however, that this is as much to do with emigration as with the growing economy. […]
The number of migrant workers from eight eastern EU nations in the United Kingdom has topped one million. […]
Despite difficulties for third-country nationals to integrate into the Lithuanian labour market, their number in the country is growing. The most popular occupation among migrants in Lithuania is long-distance drivers, the employment for as many […]
Interior Minister Tomas Žilinskas has criticized Lithuania’s refugee integration policy, saying that newcomers in integration centres are placed in a social environment that is not conductive to successful integration.
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Few Lithuanian employers would we willing to hire refugees. Reluctance to deal with unfamiliar working cultures and differing attitudes towards work is one of the reasons, but companies that have experience of hiring migrant workers say Lithuania needs to open up its labour market to make up for the shortage of skills at home. […]
With shrinking labour force universally acknowledged as the biggest impediment to Lithuania’s long-term economic growth prospects, increasingly many migrants are coming to the country to fill job vacancies. […]
Refugees resettled in Lithuania have started looking for job, says the country’s Labour Exchange which set up a special unit to work with them. […]
Lithuania’s Labour Exchange reports the growing number of new jobs and decreasing unemployment in March. Last month, the number of job seekers registered with the Labour Exchange went down about 6,600 month-on-month, totalling 160,800, or […]
Lithuania’s work visa system for foreigners has become so complicated and time-consuming that it is causing shortages of skilled labour across the economy. […]
Unemployment increased in Lithuania in December as it fell across the eurozone, according to the latest figures from Eurostat, the EU statistics agency. […]
Energy service company Vilniaus Energija has informed the Lithuanian Labour Exchange about the planned reorganisation which will result in lay offs of 114 employees of Vilnius Combined Heat and Power Plant TE-3. […]
Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė on Wednesday met with representatives of employers and investors and discussed the best ways to integrate refugees in Lithuania’s labour market. The minister was interested in the employers’ needs and capabilities. […]
As the European Union launches talks on refugee distribution, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says accepting several hundred refugees is not only a challenge but also an opportunity to solve the problem of short workforce supply. […]
EUROC Lithuania celebrates the fifth birthday of the establishment. Within the past 4 years, EUROC expanded more than 5 times from the initial plan of 250 employees in 2010 to more than 1,300 employees today (2015 April). During this time, Western Union‘s (WU) centre in Lithuania has experienced the strongest growth in global WU scale. Now EUROC has become the largest WU site in the world, said Invest Lithuania, the government’s foreign investment promotion agency. […]
There were better employment opportunities in March, as a 28.4 percent increase of job offers was recorded in Lithuania. The demand for fixed-term contracts grew particularly. More job proposals were registered for operators of mobile agricultural and forestry machinery, nursing specialists, painters, construction and mechanical engineers. The demand remained high for salespeople, drivers of heavy lorries and cargo vehicles as well as advertising and marketing specialists. There were a total of 29,200 job vacancies registered at the Labour Exchange in March. […]
Since the beginning of this year, youth unemployment in Lithuania has gradually declined. On 1 January, it stood at 6.2 percent, while on 1 July it went down to to 3.5 percent. […]
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