Employment

A record number of work permits was issued in Lithuania in the first half of 2024. The number of workers from Central Asia has increased in particular, stated the Employment Service.

Certain employment benefits for foreigners unable to return to Ukraine are set to expire from 1 September, the Migration Department said Thursday.

The Interior Ministry’s proposal to tighten rules for employing foreign nationals in Lithuania should include a lower quota for third-country nationals, says Minister of Social Security and Labour Monika Navickienė.

On Wednesday, the Lithuanian Government approved the proposal to tighten employment regulations for foreigners and to revise quotas for third country nationals. Parliament is yet to vote on the bill in question.

In October 2023, the number of employees receiving minimum monthly wage (MMW) and lower gross earnings in the whole economy (individual enterprises included) amounted to 122 thousand and it was 10.2 percent of total number of employees (0.5 percentage point more compared to October 2022). The majori...

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.

The Ministry of the Interior has presented amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Aliens. Action is taken to introduce safeguards, ensure national security and eliminate abuse of migration and employment procedures.

The Government has extended the deadline for Ukrainian refugees working in Lithuania to learn the state language.

The Ministry of Social Security and Labour has increased the quota of workers from third countries for occupations in short supply.

In October 2023, actual unemployment rate in Latvia was 6.3%, and it has not changed over the month Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) estimates show. Over the year actual unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage points.

In June 2023, actual unemployment rate in Latvia was 5.6%, the same as a month before, the Labour Force Survey conducted by the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) shows.

Some 2,400 war refugees from Ukraine have received jobs in Lithuania so far, mostly in manufacturing, transport and storage, accommodation and food services, and wholesale and retail trade.

Spain’s government is analyzing shortening working hours as well as cutting the working-week to four days.

As Lithuania's Employment Service reports the highest unemployment level this year, the country's Social Security and Labor Minister Linas Kukuraitis says the number of working people is growing following the lockdown, adding that the situation in the country's labor market is much better than in ma...

Some 1,500 more people have been fired than hired in Lithuania since the introduction of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in mid-March, Social Security and Labor Minister Linas Kukuraitis said on Tuesday, adding that there are currently 200,000 registered unemployed people in the country.

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.

Analysts predict that the number of labor immigrants in Lithuania will continue to grow this year, despite critics' concerns that this may slow down wage growth.

Lithuania has gone up a notch to the 14th position in the Employment Flexibility Index on countries' labor regulation laws.

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In 2018, the employment rate of people aged 20 to 64 in the European Union (EU) stood at 73.2%, up compared with 2017 (72.2%). The Europe 2020 strategy target is to reach a total employment rate for people aged 20 to 64 of at least 75% in the EU by 2020, releases Eurostat.