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It is proposed that the employer and the worker agree on the amount of compensation and the conditions for its payment no later than the end of the teleworking month. It is also proposed to provide that compensation cannot be included in the employee’s salary.
Social Democratic members Linas Jonauskas and Rasa Budbergytė, members of the Seimas who registered such amendments to the Labor Code, say that if they were enacted, both employees and employers would have to reach clearer time limits for an agreement on compensation for telework costs. .
“It would also prevent potential abuse by the employer when costs are not reimbursed at all or included in the employee’s salary. The wording of the Labor Code amendments was due to the fact that during the pandemic many employees began working remotely from home, incurring additional costs related to their work, which are not always reimbursed by the employer ”, say the authors of the project.
Currently, the Labor Code stipulates that if an employee incurs additional costs related to his work, acquisition, installation and use of work equipment while working remotely, they must be reimbursed. It is also indicated that the amount of compensation and the conditions for its payment will be determined by agreement between the parties to the employment contract.
“This provision leaves uncertainty about when an agreement should be reached on the reimbursement of telework costs,” says L. Jonauskas, a member of the Seimas that initiated the amendments to the Labor Code.
By the way, at the end of January this year, Tomas Bičiūnas, a member of the opposition Seimas faction of the Social Democratic Party, proposed supplementing the Labor Code with provisions that would guarantee the right of employees to privacy, ELTA recalls.
The Labor Code proposes that “workers have the right to disconnect from digital devices and be out of the reach of employers during non-working hours, at night, on public holidays and bank holidays, unless the nature of the work so requires” .
According to the MP, modern technology allows you to work anytime, anywhere. “It is clear that this practice has negative consequences, since it encourages the extension of working hours and blurs the boundaries between work and private life. Therefore, after working hours, employees should be guaranteed the right to be inaccessible, ”says T. Bičiūnas, who registered the amendments to the Labor Code.
According to him, the European Parliament has already taken the initiative and adopted a legislative initiative aimed at guaranteeing workers the right to turn off digital devices and remain inaccessible to the employer during unemployment.
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