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The summer holiday season is in full swing. According to the Labor Code, it is the employer who determines when employees may go on vacation. However, the standard today is for employees to present the employer with their preferred vacation dates when asking to take leave. Does the employer have to accommodate them? Can the employer cancel your vacation, or even order you to cut your vacation short and report for work? 

When parents of underage children divorce or break up, they all too often engage in a merciless fight over "who gets the children". This fight, however, has no winner – quite to the contrary, it may end in one of the greatest defeats in your life. Let's have a closer look what "winning" entails in practice.

On 16 April 2019, the European Parliament passed the proposal for a directive setting out joint minimum standards and rules for the protection of persons reporting on breaches of EU law.

The three-day waiting period for sick leave compensation has been abolished as of 1 July 2019, and ailing employees thus receive payments from the first day of sickness.

Lithuania: Aušra Zabulionytė promoted to Associate position