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Just before the consideration and adoption of these amendments, the president of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen announced that due to technical disturbances at 4 pm the session of Parliament will be adjourned. After a while, the leadership of parliament decided that the Seimas members would sit live next Tuesday.
Several technical problems have been encountered since the beginning of the morning session of the Seimas, when some MPs complained of not being able to register and vote, and representatives of the opposition inundated the president of the Seimas with requests to return to live sessions as soon as possible. possible. .
Meeting adjourned and will meet live next week
A half-hour break was taken at the Seimas shortly before the vote on amendments to the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act, which would force employees in certain fields to undergo regular COVID-19 testing. Subsequently, V.Čmilytė-Nielsen reported that the meeting was suspended.
“After consulting informally with colleagues on the Seimas Board, I still propose to close the session today, assessing the fact that system failures are related to Microsoft failures and are not heavily dependent on us. Therefore, today we cannot guarantee a smooth work.
After this meeting, the board will meet and decide on next week’s meeting, Tuesday, for a live meeting, because naturally the topics that were on today’s agenda will come up next week and we will have to have a longer workday.
Hope your understanding. Thank you for your patience. Unfortunately, these are disorders that do not depend on our techniques. We closed the session ”, affirmed the president of Seimas.
After some time, the leadership of parliament decided that the members of the Seimas would sit live next Tuesday.
Seimas sessions were held remotely this week by decision of the Board. According to the Statute of the Seimas, remote sessions of Parliament are held when a state of emergency is declared, an emergency or quarantine situation is declared and the work of the Seimas may be in jeopardy, as objective circumstances may put in it endangers the health and life of people. Members of the Seimas.
The Social Democrats call for a return to normality
Many Seimas members complained that their votes were not counted in the vote and many received security warnings about an insecure connection.
“The preparation for the vote is very poor and rejected, misleading information is displayed on the screen,” says A. Sysas, the oldest of the LSDP group.
“Is it possible to have an even bigger problem than votes that are not counted during voting? There have been times when MPs have said that they have misunderstood why they are voting due to misrepresentation. Are the decisions that are made legitimate? in such conditions? ”asks the politician.
Social Democrats urge a review of decisions about teleworking and a serious and responsible assessment of the possibility of returning to teleworking.
“Technical problems are only part of the problem. The question arises whether in such conditions all members of the Seimas receive all the information, if they understand it properly and what to do for those who, for technical reasons,” suddenly “turn away” from them. the whole process, “said the old man from Lithuania. The faction of the Social Democratic Party does not hide the concern.
“The recent events in the Seimas only confirm the position previously expressed by the members of the faction that it is necessary to look for opportunities to return to work in the plenary hall,” says A. Sysas.
What would change?
The amendments to mandatory employee testing provide that the Government can, in the event of an emergency, establish a list of jobs and areas of activity in which employees can work only if they have been screened in advance and then periodically sick.
These amendments would also stipulate that in the event of a workplace outbreak, workers could also work only after they have been screened for illnesses. The National Center for Public Health will determine the list of personnel to be examined.
If an employee refuses to be inspected on time without good reason, the employer would be obligated to fire him and not pay or pay him remotely until the date of the inspection.
At the same time, it is established that additional medical examinations of employees due to contagious disease can be financed from the state budget in accordance with the procedure established by the Government.
Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys, who presented the project to Seimas, stated that such regulation could not be considered coercive and violating human rights, since employees who did not want to take the test could work remotely.
For his part, the deputy of Seimas Remigijus Žemaitaitis stressed that this bill conflicts with the Constitution, because the tests “will be mandatory and there will be no election.”
