According to demographic researchers, Lithuania is already becoming a country of immigration. Although the number of people is growing and the war in Ukraine is changing the situation, job vacancies are not being filled. There […]
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. […]
Opinions are divided on why Lithuanians make relatively low wages, even compared to their northern neighbours in Estonia. As pointed out by the chief economist for Swedbank, Nerijus Mačiulis, there is a plethora of reasons […]
In the first half of 2016, 145 people in Lithuania received monthly wages in excess of €50,000. The biggest monthly salary in the first half of this year was over €250,000. “In most cases they […]
Lithuania, along with Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria, offer the lowest production costs in the EU, the latest Eurostat data shows. Average hourly labour costs in the manufacturing industry in Lithuania in 2015 was €6.7 […]
A lack of skilled employees has become a common complaint among Lithuanian employers. Representatives from international companies based in Lithuania assure that the problem will solve itself once the Lithuanian labour market and work culture start to change. […]
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 […]
IT specialists and engineers are not the only professions in high demand in Lithuania’s labour market. Sales managers, customer service specialists are also in short supply, labour market experts say.
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Authorities should stop increasing the minimum wage, the newly appointed Minister of Finance Rasa Budbergytė has said.
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Three out of four pensioners in Lithuania have occasional or regular work to supplement the small retirement pensions they receive. Currently, the average retirement pension is less than half the average wage in Lithuania (around […]
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 accelerating rate of Lithuanian wage growth has not been met with an increase on labour productivity and the Bank of Lithuania says this could be a problem for the country’s economy. Labour productivity has […]
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, […]
Half of all Lithuanians are taking on additional work to supplement income from their main job, according to a survey. Fifty percent of Lithuanians said they had some source of additional income over the last […]
Over the first quarter of this year, labour costs grew by 6.1% compared to the same period last year. Statistics Lithuania reported that labour costs for business companies grew by 7% during the same period. […]
The influence of the summer season on the job market is already becoming clear – the number of people in Lithuania looking for work has dropped by almost 14,000 over the last month, but almost […]
Lithuania’s unemployment rate dropped from to 8.2% in April as unemployment across the European Union fell slightly from 8.8% to 8.7%, according to Eurostat data. This is a slight decrease on the 8.4% unemployment rate […]
The European Commission has called on Lithuania to deal with labour market problems, particularly a decline in the working age population, to improve the coordination of innovation policies and to encourage the development and absorption of new technologies. […]
The majority of highly qualified workers that use the blue card system come to Lithuania to work from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, according to lawyer Andrejus Mokšinas. Mokšinas, who was speaking at the LOGIN 2016 […]
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