About State Labour Inspectorate
MISSION
Mission of the state labour inspectorate of the Republic of Lithuania – preservation of life, health and employability of employees as well as prevention of infringements of safeguarding employees guarantees in labour relations.
CONTACTS/ INQUIRIES
State labour inspectorate of the Republic of Lithuania
19 Algirdo str.
LT-03607 Vilnius
Lithuania
Phone: +370 5 265 0193
Fax: +370 5 213 9751
E-mail: [email protected]
E. inquiry
Exemplary form of written inquiry (complaint/notification)
MANAGEMENT
Jonas Gricius
Phone: +370 5 260 3474
E-mail: [email protected]
Chief State Labour Inspector of the Republic of Lithuania
Dalius Čeponas
Phone: +370 5210 4737
E-mail: [email protected]
Deputy Chief State Labour Inspector of the Republic of Lithuania
ACTIVITIES
Labour inspectors perform prevention of violations of standard acts regulating occupational safety and health, labour relations as well as the prevention of accidents at work and occupational diseases in enterprises, by controlling the compliance with these standard acts (6-7 per cent of registered enterprises in the country are inspected yearly) and by providing consultations to employees, their representatives, trade unions, employers, occupational safety and health services and committees in enterprises, as well as carrying out their educational mission of the public within the framework of their competence. Furthermore, the State Labour Inspectorate is actively encouraging and striving at the consolidation of relations between employers and employees and their organisations, based on the social dialogue and collective agreements.
The State Labour Inspectorate is assigned the function to carry out the control of undeclared work as well as to coordinate activities of institutions carrying out control of undeclared work in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. The State Labour Inspectorate by controlling the compliance with laws regulating labour relations, inspects compliance with the provisions of the Labour Code, among them - related with employment contracts, work pay, organisation of work and rest, as well as the enforcement of relevant resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and orders of the Ministry of Social Security and Labour.
Labour inspectors inspect if employers in enterprises, institutions and organisations identify hazards and perform risk analysis and assessment, investigate accidents at work, analyse and submit proposals on elimination of their causes and improvement of the occupational safety and health situation in the country, organise and together with representatives of health supervision institutions investigate causes and circumstances of occupational diseases; examine applications and complaints within the framework of the competence of the State Labour Inspectorate; submit comments and proposals on the draft standard acts on the issues of occupational safety and health, labour relations, conclusions on the occupational safety and health training programmes under preparation, participate during the examination of the competence of persons representing employers, persons authorised by employers, as well as the competence of specialists of occupational safety and health services.
Following the established procedure, the State Labour Inspectorate participates in the acceptance for operation of undertakings, their units or individual workplaces and investigation of accidents with equipment or objects, performs the function of the manager of the Register of Potentially Dangerous Equipment, accepts applications from enterprises to assign funds for implementation of accidents at work and occupational diseases prevention measures, etc.
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, operating in our country; the Inspectorate also carries out the functions of the representation of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in Lithuania. 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.
While performing its objectives and developing social partnership, the State Labour Inspectorate cooperates with all trade unions and organisations of employers in the country, also maintains relations with more than 30 governmental institutions and organisations, all municipalities and organizations of counties, Government representatives in counties. Since 1994, the State Labour Inspectorate has a permanent representative in the tripartite Commission of Occupational Safety and Health of the Republic of Lithuania;specialists of the institution on the ongoing basis participate in the activities of the tripartite Council of the Republic of Lithuania.
The complete information on the activities of the State Labour Inspectorate is presented in the yearly report on the status of occupational safety and health and compliance with labour laws in the enterprises, institutions and organisations of the Republic of Lithuania.
The top management of the State Labour Inspectorate, inspectors and specialists accept new challenges, related with economic market changes, with labour relations as well as with the enhanced responsibility in the context of public benefits. We are open for the dialogue with social partners and their representatives in order to improve working conditions, to secure work guarantees for employees more effectively.
HISTORY
The State Labour Inspectorate was established on 16 June 1919 as the Labour Inspection Department under the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and later was transferred to the Ministry of Interior.
The tasks, competencies, structure of the Inspectorate were defined in the Law on Labour Inspectorate passed in 1924. The Inspectorate became legitimately responsible for legal, technical and material control of labour safety. Inspectors were granted the right to visit enterprises, estate farms and apartments of the employees situated close to them during business hours.
Since 1940, before the reestablishment of the Independence, functions of labour safety were performed by different governmental offices, and control – by republican committees of trade unions.
After the restoration of the Independence of the Republic of Lithuania, in October 1990 the Department of Safety at Work was established under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Basically it took care of the technical aspects of safety at work. Therefore under the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania dated 16 December 1992, the Department of Safety at Work was reorganised into two bodies under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour: State Labour Inspectorate and Technical Supervision Service, which was later transformed into public institution.
LEGAL BASICS OF ACTIVITIES
Tasks, functions, structure, rights, duties, responsibility of labour inspectors, the procedure of inspections and the working procedure is defined by the Law on State Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Lithuania, Regulations on State Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Lithuania, Operational Regulations of State Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Lithuania. Labour inspectors, while carrying out their duties, among other rights, have the right in relation with identified infringements in the enterprise of legal acts regulating occupational safety and health or labour relations:
- to give ordinance of the established format to a person representing the employer or a person authorised by the employer and to oblige him/her to eliminate the enumerated infringements within the indicated time period;
- to prohibit use of work or personal protective equipment not complying with occupational safety and health requirements;
- to demand to stop works, which endanger occupational safety and health;
- to write a protocol of administrative law violations to a person representing the employer or a person authorised by the employer, to examine the case of administrative law violations and to adopt a decision in the case of administrative law violations to assign a fine (up to €1,448).
Cases of undeclared work according to the protocols of administrative law violations written by labour inspectors are examined and fines (up to €2,896) are issued by courts.
Only courts shall examine cases and issue fines in relation with hindrances for the officials of the State Labour Inspectorate to carry out duties charged to them or in relation to non - compliance with their requirements.
Last updated: 19-05-2025