Abstract
This article presents and analyses the main characteristics of the new Lithuanian Labour Code. The reforms of the Lithuanian labour market have been initiated to meet the challenges of fierce international competition, to find a new balance between the flexibility desired by business and the required social protection of workers and to bring the law into the line with contemporary changes at work. However, re-codification is not only about changes in the areas of working time, dismissal protection, fixed-term employment or other forms of atypical work. The Labour Code of 2016 ought to modernize the employment relationship in a much broader perspective – to revive the spirit of cooperation both at individual and collective level, to increase the judicial protection of employees, to allow for wider acceptance of technologies, investment in human capital and respect of the employee’s personality and his/her family commitments. Changes in the collective representation system are also necessary to revitalize collective bargaining and increase industrial democracy in the workplace.
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