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Lithuania's Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė has said following attacks on refugees in Rukla that asylum applications should be processed faster by migration authorities.

Minister of Social Security and Labor Algimanta Pabedinskienė disagrees with President Dalia Grybauskaitė's opinion that Lithuanian's new Labour Code is poorly balanced and needs to be improved, saying that the new law regulating labor relations is "as well-balanced as possible". To read this articl...

High youth unemployment might hamper Lithuania's plans to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), says the country's Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Social Security Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė visited Rimėnai village in the Alytus region on Wednesday to learn from the municipality and rural communities how to help disadvantaged families escape from violence, alcohol and poverty.

After a tragic incident of domestic violence that left two children dead in central Lithuania, the government is setting up a commission to look into what should have been done to prevent it.

Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė on Wednesday met with representatives of employers and investors and discussed the best ways to integrate refugees in Lithuania's labour market. The minister was interested in the employers' needs and capabilities.

As Lithuania has agreed to relocate 1,105 refugees, the country's Welfare and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė has sent out letters to each of Lithuania's 60 municipalities asking them to specify how much they can contribute to the effort. The responses have been less than encouraging.

Lithuania's Welfare and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė expects that the country's municipalities will voluntarily share the refugees after their integration period at the Refugees Reception Centre.

There are plans in the upcoming school year to provide around 80,000 schoolchildren in Lithuania with free school lunch. The state is also to give financial assistance to 78,000 children with purchasing school supplies.

Lithuanian Ministry of Social Security and Labour has submitted a draft resolution to the Government, where it suggests raising minimum monthly wage and minimum hourly pay as of 1 July 2015.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she does not see any reasons to dismiss Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė.

Although the Liberal Movement has threatened to initiate an interpellation against Lithuania's Social Security and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė, the latter has no intention of resigning on her own accord.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is critical of the Labour Party's decision to recall its minister Dainius Pavalkis from the Ministry of Education and Science, saying that there are other ministers delegated by the party that are doing much worse.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė on Monday and criticised her for stagnating reforms in children's care homes and for the lack of transparency in the ministry's use of funds.

Prevention of structural unemployment and development of an inclusive labour market is essential in order to remove obstacles to Lithuania's economic growth. This was emphasised by the Lithuanian Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė who presented the country's experience at...