social model

The European Commission has recognized Lithuania's so-called social model package, including its new Labour Code, as a structural reform and granted the country the requested flexibility in meeting its public deficit target.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has asked the European Commission (EC) to apply a reserve clause for the country to be able to have a bigger deficit of public finance during implementation of a structural reform – the new social model.

The Lithuanian parliamentary speaker believes the parliament, Seimas, does not need to convene for an extraordinary session after the president vetoed the new Labour Code. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed into law the reforms of the pension system and the state-run social insurer Sodra, part of the so-called new social model that has been subject to heated discussions. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

After six months of debates, Lithuania’s Seimas (parliament) on Tuesday voted on a new and highly disputed Labour Code, which, if signed into law by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, will come into effect in 2017. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The new Labour Code and Social Model that Lithuania's ruling coalition plan to push through before the end of their term is drawing both criticism and praise. A range of leading experts give their view of whether it is a great step forward, or backwards.

Discussions surrounding Lithuania's Labour Code reform is part of the global trend where capital is challenging workers' rights and pushing to transfer all risks associated with business cycles onto labour, according to a Linköping University professor who analysed the discourse of both the advocate...

The Lithuanian parliament will hold three plenary sittings a week in May and June instead of the usual two in an effort to adopt all the legislation in the s-called new social model package by the end of the spring session.

The Lithuanian parliament is resuming discussions of the so-called new social model, a package of reforms to the country's Labour Code and welfare system.

Additions to the Labour Code reform package proposed by the parliamentary Committee on Social Affairs and Labour have "unbalanced" it, say employer representatives, accusing lawmakers of "radical populism".

Members of the parliamentary Social Affairs and Labour Committee have divergent views on whether the new Social Model - an extensive package of Labour Code and welfare reforms - will make the labour market more flexible, as is the stated purpose of the package.

Lithuania's ruling coalition says its parties have agreed that the social model liberalizing the labor market should be approved as soon as possible. The issue was discussed at the ruling coalition's political council on Tuesday.