XPANDIUM provides complete PEO, Payroll services and Contractor management solutions for companies wanting to hire employees and run a full payroll without establishing a legal entity in Lithuania.
Your selected candidates will be hired by our own local PEO entity. We take care of the compliant onboarding, payroll, tax payments, benefits of your employees, so you can hit the ground running.
Employment contracts should be written in French.
Probation period is optional and maximized at 3 months with a potential and mutual agreement between employer and employee on extending such period with an additional 2 months.
In France the maximum working hours are dependent on the type of contract signed; Workers (salarie) or executive (cadre).
For workers, the work week means 35 hours working time. The working day may not exceed 10 hours. Employees may not work more than 4 and a half hours without a break.
The maximized working day may reach 12 hours but prior mutual agreement on terms required between employee and employer.Executive employees earning over a certain salary may work longer hours and can be compensated with additionally given resting days (holiday) rather than OT hours pay. Minimum resting hours between working days must be 11 hours. Minimum resting period in a week must be 35 hours including at least 1 day off every 7 days.
Remote employees receive a home working allowance of EUR 100 per month and to offset having to use part of the employee's home for professional purposes and the intrusion in their private life.
The current minimum wage is €1,522 per month, or €10.03 per hour.
Not mandatory.
Salaries are paid on a monthly basis and in general on the last working day of the calendar month.
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New Years Day
January 1
Day of Restoration
February 16
Day of Restoration of the State of Lithuania
Day of Independence
March 11
Day of Restitution of Independence of Lithuania
Easter Sunday
April 4
Varies yearly
Labor Day
May 1
Father’s Day
June 6
Midsummer’s Day
June 24
Statehood Day
June 06
Assumption of Mary
August 15
All Saints’ Day
November 1
All Souls Day
November 02
Christmas Eve
December 24
Christmas Day
December 25
Saint Stephen’s Day
December 26
You may offer custom benefits for your employees. As an Employer, you may benefit from offering an attractive compensation package during hiring. This means that in addition to salary, employees may receive one or more non-salary compensation.
Supplementary medical insurances (private or dental / vision)
Supplementary life insurance
Additional paid holidays
Flexible work schedule
Offering individual benefits for one or a selected group of employees needs to be planned and advised to be signed with a side agreement along with an employment contract.
Employees are entitled to 20 days annual paid leave.
There are 11 paid public holidays. Previous day working hours are shorter with 1 hour fully paid. Timesheets should show 1 less hour for that day.
An employee is entitled to employer paid days yearly.
Payment is 100% of the employee’s average salary for the first 2 days by the employer, but from the 3rd day on the employee receives 62.06% from SODRA without any employer contribution costs.
Expecting women can have a total of 18 weeks (126 days) maternity leave and receive the average monthly salary of the last 12 consecutive months prior to the birth. Additional 2 weeks leave added for complicated or multiple childbirth. Maternity benefit is a maximum 77.58% of the average wage(as insured’s income) received in 12 consecutive months prior to childbirth, but min. 228 EUR.
4 weeks
An employer may grant an employee unpaid leave at the employee’s request.
Employers have the below options to terminate an employment contract in Lithuania:
Termination by the Employer is immediately effective.
Employees may freely terminate their employment contract with a written notice of minimum 1 month notice.
An employment agreement may be terminated by the Employer by proper notice and cause.
The length of notice depends on the length of the continuous employment period.
Notice periods increase in case of:
If termination is due to Employer’s redundancy, the employee is entitled to the salary that they would have received from the date of termination to the expiry date of the contract.
The termination by mutual consent allows the Employer and Employee to agree freely and in a written agreement with each other on the conditions of termination.
When the employment contract expires then such employment is automatically terminated.
Employee is entitled to severance pay if the Employer terminates the contract due to redundancy
Employees are entitled to receive 1 month of average wage amounts of redundancy pay if the length of employment with the Employer: 12 months’ or less employment. Redundancy is calculated based on six months’ average wage amounts if the length of employment is over 240 months.