Employment Service EN

Only eight percent of Lithuania’s employers would approve a shorter working week, a poll by the Employment agency finds.

The number of foreign workers is rapidly growing in Lithuania. In a year, their number increased by 56,000 and is now nearing 142,000, show data of the Employment Service.

Lithuania's wet-lease and charter services provider GetJet Airlines has given lay-off notices to 370 employees, the Employment Service said.

Lithuania plans to continue this year allowing foreign drivers, construction workers and other workers of the industrial and construction sectors to come to Lithuania under a facilitated procedure after the country's Employment Service updated its list of key professions lacking workers.

Lithuania's unemployment rate edged down by 0.1 percentage points in October from September to 7.9 percent, the country's Employment Service said on Friday.

The demand for workers in Lithuania's construction sector exceeds the supply, the country's Employment Service said on Friday.