TEFI TCA – id. code 3919 Final report INDEX INTRODUCTION I ...

TEFI TCA – id. code 3919Article 129 part 3 point 4 of Labour Code indicates that the legalgrounds to disrupt labour relations cannot be employee’s sex, sexualorientation, race, nationality, language, origins, citizenship, socialstatus, faith, conjugality, family status, age, creed or convictions,being member of political parties or public organizations.In January 1 of 2005 has come into force new Law on EqualOpportunities its purpose being to secure implementation of equalhuman rights indicated in the Constitution of Republic of Lithuania(Žin., 1992, Nr. 33-1014) and to ban any direct or indirectdiscrimination on the basis of age, sexual orientation, disability, racialor ethnical dependence, religion or creed. Article 5 of mentionedabove law declares the employer, exercising equal opportunities,regardless to person’s age, sexual orientation, disability, racial orethnical belongings, religion or creed is obliged: 1) to apply uniformcriteria to the conditions of giving a job or taking into civil service; 2)to set up uniform conditions for job, civil service, for opportunities toraise skills, seeking for more complex vocational training, retraining,acquiring practical work experience, and for applying uniformexemptions; 3) to apply uniform tests estimating employees’ andpublic officials’ work; 4) to apply uniform criteria of discharge fromjob and civil service; 5) to pay the same wages for identical work; 6)to provide employee, public official against chicanery; 7) to provideemployee, public official against sexual chicanery; 8) in caseemployee, public official has lodged a complaint againstdiscrimination to provide him against persecution and hostilebehaviour or negative after-effects; 9) to apply proper measures forestablishing favourable conditions under which disabled personswould be able to get job, to do work,Final report 69