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An amendment to the law will be necessary to avoid that such an obligation falls on employers.
“We expected today another question about mandatory tests for certain emerging companies. But we have a practically curious situation that the establishment of such a state obligation could not be financed by the state itself without amending the law,” reported I. Šimonytė on the situation.
The Government is preparing to propose an amendment to the law to the Seimas for its consideration with special urgency. The Seimas spring session is just starting next week.
“In order not to burden employers with the burden that they would later have to bear and we would have no way to compensate for this, we will propose at the next meeting (…) an amendment to the Communicable Disease Prevention Act that will allow the government to deal with outbreaks or outbreaks, or certain activities provide for the obligation to perform the test.
That obligation would then be borne by the State. We will ask the Seimas to consider this as a matter of extreme urgency so that he can (amendment of the law – passed aut.) it will be adopted next week and will be implemented accordingly where necessary, ”explained the Prime Minister.
Encouraged returning examiners and instructors to examine on their own
Following the failure of the mandate to re-commission driving instructors and examiners to perform coronavirus tests, the Prime Minister urged the Ministries of Transport and Interior to urge staff to do the work themselves.
“I would like to ask the Minister of Transport and the Minister of the Interior for a renewable driving training and exams, simply contact the state company Regitra and the driving training companies to urge them to take such tests with public funds or, that is, with taxpayers money.
As we do not have the possibility to logically determine the obligation due to such a strange legal situation, we will first have to change the law, it is necessary to talk about this right and insist on proposing it ”, stated I. Šimonytė.
We remind you that the government on Wednesday, March 10, allowed the provision of vehicle driving training and examination services.
Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė told the meeting that the institutions that provide them are prepared to provide safe driving training services.
Both she and Prime Minister I. Šimonytė also raised the issue of mandatory tests for beginners. The Prime Minister considered that this could be addressed in the future.
The Prime Minister has repeatedly mentioned that the scope of testing in some Lithuanian municipalities is insufficient.
