On Wednesday 14 September, following two years of protests and a presidential veto that forced parliamentarians to reexamine the text, Lithuania’s parliament has finally adopted the labor law reform proposal. The major changes are detailed below.
This new piece of legislation introduces several new categories of employment contract including project work, shared work, multiple employers, open contracts (greater than 8 hours per month) so that in total, nine different employment contract categories will exist. The law aims to better represent the current diverse nature of employment relationships and in particular the rapid rise of the independent worker. The new legislation restricts the maximum length of time to two years for a fixed t
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