With some Lithuanian MPs proposing to legislate the right of workers to be unavailable after working hours, trade unions say the scale of the issue is huge. Employers, meanwhile, do not see a problem. The Vilnius-based law firm Cobalt employs over 120 lawyers, paralegals and support staff. The lawyers’ union has been working for some…
Vilnius is testing the real-time public transport information integrated into Google Maps. The Lithuanian capital as well as Kaunas and Klaipeda are putting their public transport information onto the world’s most popular travel planning platform. The integrated schedules will allow monitoring the location and routes of buses and trolleybuses in real time and will thus…
Foreign arms manufacturers are considering to set up a production facility in Lithuania, says Laurynas Kasciunas, conservative chairman of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defence. On September 21, the committee talked about the Lithuanian military’s stockpile and national production capacity. The war in Ukraine has shown the need to stock up as much…
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Simasius has said he supports the management of the municipal public transport company, as its workers are planning a strike in October. The trade union of Vilnius Public Transport (Vilniaus Viesasis Transportas, VVT) workers has announced this week it is planning an action over what it says is the management’s failure to…
Lithuania’s Finance and Social Security and Labour Ministries have proposed to the government to increase the minimum monthly wage by 110 euros, to 840 euros before tax, from January 1, 2023. The ministries also proposed increasing the non-taxable income threshold by 85 euros, to 625 euros. The Cabinet will consider the rates of the minimum…
The year-on-year price of bread rose by a third in Lithuania in August, according to Eurostat’s Monday data quoted by Reuters. The highest increase in bread price was recorded in Hungary with 66%. Throughout the European Union, the price of bread rose by 18% in August. The prices have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of…
The construction of the Permanent Logistics Support Area has been launched in Rukla in central Lithuania, the Defence Ministry reports. The project is aimed at improving service conditions for the NATO eFP Battle Group and meeting its logistics needs in Lithuania, according to the ministry. The project will include the construction of a service and…