| Abstract [eng] |
The institute of employee‘s disciplinary liability is one of the most significant institutes in Labour Law. The legal rules of this institute are intended not only to ensure the right of the employer, as the owner of his property, to ownership, but also to protect the employees from unjustified and illegal application of disciplinary liability. Since the United Kingdom has a long experience of regulating employment relationship, in the Article the legal regulation of employees‘ disciplinary liability in Lithuania is being compared with that country. The Article analyses the sources of labour law regulating this institute, in Lithuania and in the United Kingdom, the basis for disciplinary liability, the procedure of imposing disciplinary sanctions, the appeal of imposed disciplinary sanctions and bodies, resolving disputes arisen from these matters. This Article is based not only on the comparative analysis of the legal rules determined in the acts of these countries, but also on the practice of the courts and the material of labour law specialists concerning the disciplinary liability are scrutinized. The comparative analysis of the acts, regulating employees‘ disciplinary liability in Lithuania and in the United Kingdom, shows material differences of the legal regulation in both countries, detects certain flaws in the regulation and there are improvements of these flaws proposed in this Article. |
