Our partner and labor law specialist Karin Madisson and counsel Pirkko-Liis Harkmaa recommend that employers whose companies are not doing so well in the current special situation should not take such extreme measures quickly. Read more in Estonian.
Updated on 21 April 2020 Additional conditions for declaring idle time On 8 April 2020 amendments to the Labour Code regulating idle time due to the state of emergency and quarantine came into effect. For this reason, in order to declare idle time additional conditions will apply from now on: due to the nature of […]
Updated on 21 April 2020 Subsidies on wages paid during idle time Subsidies will be paid to employers who declare idle time because they cannot provide employees with agreed work due to the state of emergency and quarantine, and due to the work organisation there is no possibility to work remotely or the employee does […]
Since announcing a state of emergency on 12 March 2020 due to COVID-19, the Latvian Government has been working on measures to support affected companies. The following support is already available: Payment of salaries to employees from the state budget: where employees are not working as a direct consequence of limitations imposed by the Government (an order on […]
Wage cuts or redundancies are already a tough reality, what will happen next is unknown. Our partner Karin Madisson, talked about how to cope with the current situation in the labor market on Duubel. Watch the interview in Estonian here.
