Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists exhorts government to legitimize a prolonged weekly working time that would then exceed 48 hours. The reason for this proposal is that employees actually do work “opt-out” hours, both in state institutions or private companies. (Ref. 06332)
The Confederation maintains that Lithuania should fight for the working time prolongation during discussions on amendments of European working time Directive in European Parliament. According to Lithuanian Labour code and European working time directive the average working time for each seven-day period, including overtime, can not exceed 48 hours. Excluding overtime, maximum working time in Lithuania is 40 hours weekly.
Industrialists claim their idea is not to prolong working time, but libera
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