| Abstract [eng] |
The reconciliation of work and family life in labor law is disclosed in the context of the concept of family in labour law and analysing social guarantees and benefits granted to employees while reconciliating work and family life in International Labour Organisation legislation, European Social Charter (revised), European Union legislation and national law. It should be noted that the issue is that in Lithuanian labor law, international law and European Union law there is no single definition of a family since it is a social category. Nevertheless, under Lithuanian law, family is the constitutional value, that the state protects and defends. The analysis of national, international and European Union legislation revealed that in the aspect of reconciliation of work and family, family is understood wider than only spouses and their offsprings - family circle includes life partners, grandparents, other close relatives, single parent, life partners raising children, etc. This is the reason why social guarantees and benefits are granted to these people by national law, international law and European Union law with the help of which a family and professional life becomes easier to reconcile. This thesis presents the concept of a collective agreement, discloses its legal nature, functions, the types of a collective agreement, its content and contains the statistics of the collective agreements signed and registered in Lithuania. Lithuanian Labor Code legislation does not define a single definition of a collective agreement, but widely speaking a collective agreement is a legal act between social partners, which regulates the work and the associated relations at the national, branch or territorial level, company or agency level, performs protective, social partnership and rule-making functions, and the right to determine the content of the collective agreement is up to the parties guided by the in favorem principle. Based on statistics in Lithuania on February 2017, 14 collective agreements at branch level and 9 collective agreements at territorial level have been in force. The most important part of this thesis examines the implementation of reconciliation of work and family life in collective agreements existing in Lithuania at branch level, territorial level and company/institutional level (public sector and private sector), discloses the essence of following collective agreements, mutual differences and similarities. While analyzing the reconciliation of work and family life in the collective agreements signed in Lithuania there were discussed and analyzed 9 out of 13 collective agreements at branch level registered and valid in Lithuanian Social Security and Labour Ministry, 2 out of 9 collective agreements at territorial level registered and valid in Lithuanian Social Security and Labour Ministry and 22 collective agreements at company level. Under current Lithuanian Labour Code, collective agreements at company level are not registered, so there is no precise data on how many collective agreements at this level are signed in Lithuania at this very moment. |
