Universally applied collective agreements or other collective agreements meeting equivalent criteria in the Republic of Lithuania

Lithuania does not have a system for proclaiming collective agreements as universally applicable therefore, an extended application of collective agreements of a level superior to that of the employer meeting the criteria provided for in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 3(8) of Directive (EU) 2018/957 was chosen, i.e. provisions of national (interindustry), territorial and industrial (production, service, professional) collective agreements or their individual provisions of extended application must be followed.

At present, there are no national (interindustry), territorial and industrial (production, service, professional) collective agreements or individual provisions of extended application.

Application of employer-level collective bargaining agreements
The provisions of employer-level collective agreements shall only apply to temporary workers and only to the extent that is necessary to ensure the application of non-discrimination principle for those workers (per Article 5 of Directive 2008/104/EC). The following provisions
shall apply: 1) protection offered to pregnant, who recently gave birth, and breastfeeding workers; workers raising children under three (3) years of age; and workers under 18 years of age; 2) prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, race, nationality, language, origin, citizenship and social status, faith, family status, intentions on having children, beliefs or creed, membership in political parties and associations, and age; 3) maximum working time and minimum rest time, overtime, night-shift breaks, duration of annual leave and public holidays. The temporary-work agency must ensure that the remuneration of temporary workers for work at the temporary work user enterprise should be no lower than remuneration that would have been paid if the temporary work user enterprise had employed temporary workers under an employment contract for the same job; except where temporary workers working under temporary employment contracts for an indefinite term receive remuneration from the temporary-work agency for in-between assignments, and the amount of that remuneration for in-between assignments is the equivalent.