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Representatives of four parties in Lithuania, holding negotiations on a future ruling coalition, said on Thursday they have completed their work, acknowledging, however, their failure to agree on the child benefit.

With the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) congress nearing, “Farmer” leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has spoken to party members, proposing to halve the number of LVŽS deputies. The party chairman would like to not longer have Seimas first Vice Speaker Rima Baškienė and Seimas Vice Speaker Arvyda...

The amendments to the Labour Code proposed by the “Farmers”, where employers would have to specify wages in job advertisements and the interval for the size, have been met with criticism from experts, who think this will improve neither the employer, nor the employee’s negotiation positions, lrt.lt ...

Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) deputy chairman, Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius confirmed to lrt.lt that part of the LVŽS Vilnius city branch has offered him to run for Vilnius mayor in next year’s municipal elections. V. Sinkevičius has not yet revealed whether he would like ...

Members of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement's Vilnius branch have decided to nominated Remigijus Šimašius, the capital's current mayor, as their candidate in next year's mayoral election, giving him the mandate to form a public election committee.

The Lithuanian parliament on Friday took another step toward adopting a part of the government's proposed tax reform package, including setting a ceiling on social insurance contributions, shifting a part of these contributions onto the employee and taxing it at 19.5 percent, and using only central ...

The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on Social Affairs and Labor on Wednesday approved of a ceiling on employees' contributions to the state social insurance fund Sodra, back-pedaling on a decision to oppose the measure it took last week.

The direct payments that replaced tax deductions to parents from January reached 156,000 more children, says MP Tomas Tomilinas, deputy chairman of the parliamentary Social Affairs and Labor Committee.

The ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union suggest ratifying the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) on a condition that it will include Lithuania's statement on imports of genetically modified organisms and hormone-treated beef.

One out of three members of the Seimas made public information about their meetings with organizations and registered lobbyists during the Lithuanian parliament's past spring session, Transparency International Lithuania said on Wednesday after analyzing parliamentarians' official calendars and pers...

The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday passed amendments to the country's new Labour Code, which was adopted last year but will come into force in July.