Labour Code

With the Seimas election already this weekend, the latest poll data shows that three parties are currently neck and neck in the electoral race. The Social Democrats (LSDP) have managed to maintain a lead, but it is a tenuous one with both the Peasant Greens (LVŽS) and Conservatives (TS-LKD) in close...

Mass emigration from Lithuania has become a key topic in this year's general elections, with most political parties vowing to create more well-paid jobs to lure people back home, but laying emphasis on different aspects of achieving this goal.

Former Minister of Economy, Social Democrat (LSDP) Birutė Vėsaitė and Aivaras Abromavičius, former Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development and Trade, now candidate for the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), were featured in a live Delfi Balsuok 2016 debate on September 30. ...

Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius expects that Lithuania's new Labour Code will significantly improve the country's competitiveness after it comes into effect next January.

Lithuania's budget for 2017 is being planned with a small deficit that the European Commission is expected to approve if the country's new Labour Code and other social protection system changes are recognized as structural reforms, Finance Minister Rasa Budbergytė said on Wednesday.

A newly adopted Labour Code is a signal to the investors that investment climate is improving in Lithuania. After the change, labour relations in the country will be more flexible, and this will create better conditions not only for investors but also for employees. At the same time more favourable ...

The new Labour Code passed by the Seimas has not been well received by voters. Based on a poll by public opinion and market research company Vilmorus more than half of the respondents viewed the new Labour Code negatively. The negative perception of the code was found across the electorates of almos...

Just a week after the Lithuanian parliament overrode the president's veto on the new Labour Code with a promise to improve the package, adopted in June, before next month's general elections, lawmakers, mostly from the Social Democratic political group, have started putting forward amendments.

To promote voting in general election this October amongst the diaspora, the Lithuanian Youth Association of the UK (JKLJS) with partners organized a political debate at the University College London. The event packed large Darwin hall with live streaming being watched by Lithuanians in the US, Neth...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday signed the new Labour Code and accompanying amendments into law, the President's Office said. Last week, the parliament overrode the presidential veto and kept the liberal version of the Labor Code it had adopted in June. The new code and the social...

The Lithuanian parliament on Wednesday overturned the presidential veto of a new Labour Code that was adopted by the Seimas in June, thus paving the way for the legislation aimed liberalizing labor relations to come into effect in early 2017.

The Lithuanian parliament on Wednesday overturned President Dalia Grybauskaitė's veto of a new Labour Code, leaving in place the law that was passed in June.

The Lithuanian parliament's Social Security and Labor Committee has suggested backing President Dalia Grybauskaitė's veto of the new Labour Code.

Four week cycle of Seimas electoral debates has commenced. Politicians will be discussing the topics of economics, demographics, justice and social politics. The leaders of Lithuanian parties or their representatives will be engaged in live debates, trying to attract potential voters. The first deba...