Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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The most problematic situation is in Lithuania, where salary payment delays
have increased noticeably. Already in 1998, there were more delays in Lithuania
than in the other two countries. Now, the gap has grown still further. The
incidence of the longest salary delays of all has not grown any more, even in
Lithuania. However, delays of one month or shorter have clearly increased in
frequency.
DELAYS IN RECEIVING SALARY DURING THE LAST 12 MONTHS
IN 1998 AND 2002 BY SECTOR
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
1998
Private
ESTONIA LATVIA LITHUANIA
Over 1 month
Up to 1 month
Up to 2 weeks
Up to 1 week
Do not know
2002 1998
Public
2002 1998
Private
2002 1998
Public
2002 1998
Private
2002 1998
Public
In both Estonia and Latvia, salary payment delays have occurred above all in
the private sector. In Lithuania on the other hand, there have been the most
delays in the public sector, especially ones under a month in length. In the
public sector particularly, the differences between the countries have grown
large. Only a few per cent of the wage earners are concerned in Estonia, while
the proportion experiencing delays in Lithuania has reached over 40 per cent.
In Latvia and Lithuania in 2002, long salary delays lasting over a month were
more common in the private sector. This is also true of Estonia, but there they
have happened quite seldom. Long delays in salary payment have still been
numerous: one in ten Lithuanian wage earners, and more than one in twenty of
the Latvians, has had to experience them during the last year.
2002