Euro Posting

To improve the registration of posted workers, The State Labour Inspectorate is going to simplify the procedure of prior declaration about posting.
Decree No. A1-169 of 16 June 2005, published by the Ministry of Social Security and Labour, adopting the information procedure on posted workers (Official Journal 2005, No. 77-2801) stipulates that various information relating posted workers in Lithuania must be submitted to the regional sections of the State Inspection of the Ministry of Social Security and Labour.
This Decree requires employers sending an employee from a Member State or from any other State to work temporarily on the territory of the Republic of Lithuania for a period longer than 30 days or to carry out construction works specified in the Law on Construction of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 1996, No 32-788; 2001, No 101-3597) to submit the notification in Lithuanian in the form established in paragraph 1 of Article 4 of the Law on Guarantees to Posted Workers to the division of the State Labour Inspectorate. If the employee is temporarily assigned to a number of companies owned by individuals or legal entities, each individual or legal entity concerned must be mentioned in the notification..

The notification must be submitted by post or by fax not later than five days before the beginning of work period on the territory of the Republic of Lithuania
In special cases not planned in advance (for example, if an employee is sent to carry out immediate repairs and restoration work on mechanisms or equipment in cases where their failure would force a large number of employees to stop work or where materials might deteriorate or equipment might break down, etc.), the notification must be submitted on the first working day of the employee sent to work on the territory of the Republic of Lithuania.

Following submission of the notification, according to paragraph 1 of Article 4 of the Law applicable to employees sent on a business trip, if the length of or other conditions applicable to business trips are changed, the employer must immediately submit a revised notification in accordance with the established procedure
Toutes les notifications sont enregistrées par les divisions régionales de l'inspection d'Etat du travail.

The regional divisions of the State Labour Inspectorate register all notifications. The State Labour Inspectorate exchanges information on employees sent on business trips with the State Social Insurance Fund Board under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour and with the Lithuanian Labour Exchange under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour in accordance with the conditions and the procedure established in agreements on the exchange of such information.

The liaison office listed on the European Commission site is supervised by 'State Labour Inspectorate
Algirdo 19
03607 Vilnius-06
Tel.: +37052650193
Fax: 37052139751
E-Mail : info@vdi.lt
vanda.zabulionyte@vdi.lt

Where a Member State sends a request for information relating to posted workers to the liaison office via IMI, The Head of the State Inspectorate of Labour asked the regional divisions of the Labour Inspectorate to conduct a survey of the posting company or in the workplaces of employees posted in Lithuania

In the liaison office, there is one Inspector responsible for the communication with other Member States in the field of posting of workers. However the inspections of workplaces where posted workers perform work are made by the inspectors of the territorial divisions of the State Labour Inspectorate. In cases of request for information about posting from other Member State, the Chief Labour Inspector ask territorial divisions of State labour inspectorate to make an inspection of enterprise which posts workers or where posted workers perform work.

The State Labour Inspectorate consults and provides information to employers and their organizations, and trade unions on the application of the Law on Guarantees of Posted Workers.
State Labour Inspectorate controls labour conditions apply of posted workers in accordance with the Law on guarantees of posted workers

Using IMI since 2011 september:
- 29 requests received (mostly from Belgium, France and Norway)
- 5 requests sent
2 labour inspectors from the State Labour Inspectorate and the National Coordinator (Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania) are authorized to access to IMI.

The State labour Inspectorate has an agreement with Norwegian Labour Inspectorate and a project of amendments of agreement between Lithuanian and Polish Labour Inspectorates

With Lithuania‘s EU membership, besides the supervision of enforcement of existing standard acts, the State Labour Inspectorate is endowed with new functions and obligations:

• control of working conditions of posted workers from EU countries,
• control of drivers work and rest time performed on the roads and in the enterprises following the procedure established by EU documents and national standard acts.

Pursuant to the Law on European Work Councils of the Republic of Lithuania, the State Labour Inspectorate is commissioned to control the protection and guarantees of workers representatives’ rights in the European Community companies and their units.
And these, no doubt, are not the last obligations

In order to be able to execute these obligations, the inspectors are encouraged to upgrade qualifications, to improve administrative and professional capacities aiming at the implementation of the prevention culture by new activity methods, at the same time not leaving out the traditional forms of work, verified by life.