As Lithuanian Education, Science and Sport Minister Algirdas Monkevicius is calling a meeting with five trade unions over a collective agreement on Thursday, some teachers are staging a protest outside the ministry in Vilnius.
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The government's efforts to talk to social partners and match different interests are welcome, however, implementation of the National Agreement, which was signed on Monday, is questionable, as it may not secure support among other political forces, says professor Vitalis Nakrošis of the Vilnius Uni...
Representatives of the government, businesses and trade unions are on Monday signing a national agreement on the reforms necessary for the country's progress.
After about 100 employees of forestry companies and representatives of trade unions gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament on Wednesday in protest of the planned reform, Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis announced that the approval of the reform would be postponed until fall. On Wednesd...
President Dalia Grybauskaite has signed into law amendments to the country's new Labour Code.
Representatives of the Lithuanian government, employers and trade unions signed an agreement on a number of issues during the last meeting of the Tripartite Council on Wednesday, the Social Security and Labour Ministry said.
Lithuanian employers are considering a possibility of a public pledge to raise wages in exchange of consideration of their proposals of regulation of labor relations, delfi.lt news portal said, adding that trade unions are cautious about the proposal.
The number of members of trade unions was on the decline over the past six years, uniting 92,000 members or 7.7 percent of all employees last year, Statistics Lithuania said on Monday.
