| Abstract [eng] |
In the first part the main issue is analyzes of European Communities law and the Directive No 2001/23/EC witch laid down legal guarantees for the employees during the process of enterprises reorganization. The main provisions of the directive that include protection of individual and collective employee’s interests were explained according to The European Court of Justice practice. In the second part of the work was done analyzes of the concept of reorganization in civil and labor law, in purpose to find out definition of reorganization, means and stages of process. There are given a comparison of reorganization and liquidation, reorganization and restructuring. This part of work also includes analyzes of Labour Code norms, which laid down restrictions on employer who is unallowable to terminate the employment contract during reorganization of the enterprises. The study reveals that national legislation does not fully comply with purposes of Directive No 2001/23/EC. Although, reorganization in itself is not a legitimate reason for termination of employment, but employment protection is not absolute too. During the reorganization and after this process, labour relations between employer and employees may be complicated and employment succession is not always guaranteed. Therefore, there is talking about the employer's right to terminate the labour contract, the implementation and restricts of this right. Last part also includes discussion about possibility to transfer employees, realization of information and consultation obligations. Work has been finished with the conclusions, which is based on investigation of laws and the European Court of Justice and the Lithuanian Supreme Court practice and also analysis of legal doctrine. |
