LaborMarket

New welfare minister promises more attention to employment issues

Latvia’s new welfare minister Reinis Uzulnieks from the Latvian Alliance of the Green Party and Farmers Union said during an interview on Latvian Television on Tuesday, that he hopes to [..]

Average monthly wages up in Latvia

The average gross monthly wage for full-time workers in Latvia was EUR 1,685 last year, which was an increase of 9.7% (EUR 149) against 2023, the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) [..]

Forecast: Lithuanian unemployment to rise

Lithuania’s labour market barometer stood at 96.6 points in December, or three points lower than in November. The European Labour Market Barometer, for its part, edged downward by 0.1 points [..]

Latvian welfare minister: Migrants may be needed in workforce

Latvian Welfare Minister Uldis Augulis has told the LETA News Agency that the government must think more about keeping local residents in the labour market for as long as possible, [..]

Swedbank: Estonian residents’ desire to work at record high

The desire of residents of Estonia to be in employment is greater than ever since the country restored its independence, Liis Elmik, senior economist at Swedbank Estonia, said in a [..]

Increase in wage offers continued in Estonia in Q2

The average gross salary range offered in job advertisements in Estonia in the second quarter of 2024 was from 1,633 to 2,142 euros a month, 12 percent higher than during [..]

Almost 70 pct of people aged 55-64 worked in Lithuania in 2023

As much as 69.1 per cent of the population aged 55-64 were employed in Lithuania in 2023, which was one of the highest rates across the European Union (EU), the [..]

Expert: Employees in Estonia exceptionally active in job hunting this year

Employees are exceptionally active in job hunting this year, with over one million job applications submitted to employers so far, according to statistics from the job portal CVKeskus.ee. However, employers [..]

Minimum wage in Lithuania may cross pretax threshold of EUR 1,000 in 2025 – minister

Social Security and Labor Minister Monika Navickiene forecasts that the minimum monthly wage in Lithuania may cross the 1,000-euro pre-tax threshold next year. “The considerations are correct, the minimum wage [..]

CVKeskus: Salary offers in Estonia up 13 pct on year in Q1

The average gross salary range offered in job listings in Estonia during the first quarter of 2024 was between 1,660 and 2,244 euros, a 13 percent increase compared to the [..]

Number of job vacancies in Latvia decreases 6.1% in 2023

There were 24,300 job vacancies in Latvia last year, which is 1,600 vacancies or 6.1 percent less than in 2022, the Central Statistical Bureau said on Friday. In private sector [..]

Average wage in Lithuania up 12 pct – SoDra

The average wage growth of almost 12 percent at the end of 2023 was driven by a higher minimum wage, rising wages of civil servants, and companies’ desire to retain [..]

Omniva to cut 75 jobs in Estonia

Citing a difficult economic situation, Estonia’s state-owned postal service and logistics company Omniva announced on Wednesday that it is about to make 75 jobs redundant in Estonia. The collective redundancies [..]

Number of collective redundancy notice recipients grows to 3,500 last year

During the past year, a total of 3,538 employees of 124 employers received final collective redundancy notices, compared to 84 employers and 2,871 employees in the previous year. Nearly a [..]

Minimum monthly wage in Latvia increases to EUR 700

The minimum monthly wage in Latvia increases from EUR 620 to EUR 700 as of the 1st of January, according to amendments to Cabinet regulations that came into force on [..]

Estonian govt to approve increase of minimum salary from next year – the minimum monthly wage for full-time employment will be 820 euros

The Estonian government on Thursday will confirm the increase in the minimum wage from the new year, which was agreed upon by the representatives of the Estonian Trade Union Confederation [..]

Ministry, trade unions back tighter recruitment of third-country nationals

The recruitment of third-country nationals should be tightened to attract more workers with higher added value, Vice Minister of Social Security and Labor Vytautas Silinskas says after the country’s Interior [..]

Nearly 19,800 people receive unemployment insurance benefit in Estonia in Q3; average unemployment insurance benefit – 684 euros

19,799 people received an unemployment insurance benefit in the third quarter of this year, 24 percent more than during the same quarter last year and 0.2 percent more than in [..]

The gross hourly earnings of female employees were 17.7 percent smaller than the earnings of male employees in Estonia

The gross hourly earnings of female employees were 17.7 percent smaller than the earnings of male employees in 2022, and the gender pay gap increased by 2.8 percentage points year [..]

Survey: Less than half of employers in Estonia planning pay hikes

According to the autumn labor market survey by wage information agency Palgainfo Agentuur and job classifieds portal CVkeskus.ee, almost one in three employers in Estonia are sure that they will [..]

Estonia, Finland to start exchanging employment related data

Estonia and Finland are about to develop IT solutions for the exchange of data related to employment. Estonia’s Minister of Social Protection Signe Riisalo is in Helsinki on Monday to [..]