Summer Festivities in Lithuania: Do Employers Have to Pay for Employee Participation in Events?
Whether attendance at a company event qualifies as paid working time depends strictly on whether the employer mandates participation, according to Jurgita Karvelė, an attorney at the law firm Sorainen. While labor codes do not explicitly categorize social gatherings, the legal standard rests on whether the employee remains under the employer’s direction during the event. … Read more