SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
RESOLUTION ON THE ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE LAW ON EMPLOYMENT
CONTRACT
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania resolves:
1. To establish that the Republic of Lithuania Law on
Employment Contract shall enter into force on 1 January 1992,
with the exception of paragraph 2 of Article 4, and Article 37
which shall enter into force on 1 March 1992. In the period
up to 1 March 1992, Articles 44 and 205 of the Labour Code of
the Republic of Lithuania shall be in force.
Article 37, paragraph 1(1) of Article 43, and paragraph 4 of
Article 158 of the Labour Code of the Republic of Lithuania shall
be suspended from the day of enactment of this Law.
2. To determine that regulations provided by this Law
shall be applied to labour relations established prior to 1
January 1992 and maintained after the enactment of this Law.
3. To commission:
1) the Government of the Republic of Lithuania to prepare, by 15
April 1992, the draft of the law on the amendments to the Labour
Code of the Republic of Lithuania, and to other employment laws,
which amendments bear on the enactment of the Law on Employment
Contract; and
2) the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Security to
prepare and approve, by 1 March 1992, the list of occupations
where persons from 14 to 16 years of age may be employed to
perform work in pursuance of paragraph 2 of Article 4 of the Law
on Employment Contract.
4. To establish that the period of notice specified in
Article 28 of this Law shall be applicable only in the cases
where an application concerning the termination of an
employment contract was filed after this Law had come into force.
5. In the previously enacted laws, to substitute the
words "employment contract" for the words " contract of hire".
6. To establish that Article 16 of this Law, which
provides for the requirement to present social insurance
certificates to the employer, shall enter into force on 1
January 1993. Up to the specified date, the regulations for the
keeping of labour record books shall be valid.
7. To establish that the employees who have been given
notice of the termination of employment in the manner established
by law on the grounds of the liquidation of an enterprise,
institution or organisation, or reduction of the number of
employees prior to the entry into force of this Law, upon
being discharged on the specified grounds shall have the right
to receive gratuity on discharge (other payments) for choice
either as provided for in Article 40 of this Law or in Article
51(3) of the Labour Code of the Republic of Lithuania.
8. To grant the right to the Ministry of Justice to
interpret the application of the Law on Employment Contract in
conjunction with the Ministry of Social Security.
VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS
President
Supreme Council
Republic of Lithuania
Vilnius
28 November 1991
No. I-2050