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Lithuania

Lithuania scores 2.24/6.0 on the OECD employment-protection strictness index.

OECD EPL
2.24 OECD EPL strictness (0–6) Above the OECD average
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Lithuania scores 2.24/6.0 on the OECD employment-protection index - above the OECD average of about 2.0.

#39/72 · OECD 2.24/6. OECD EPL.

Employment Protection Composite

D 45/100

One composite verdict from 1 of 3 independent sources, each percentile-benchmarked against every rated country. A missing source never lowers the score -- its weight redistributes to the sources this country actually has.

ILO EPLex N/A
N/A
Statutory dismissal-protection composite
World Bank B-READY N/A
N/A
Labor-market regulatory quality
OECD EPL D
2.24
Employment protection legislation strictness (0-6 scale)

Benchmarked against p10-p90 of every country rated by that source. See our methodology for the exact benchmark table and weights.

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What the Data Shows for Lithuania

Europe. Covered by 1/3 tracked datasets. As an OECD member, it is included in the OECD's long-running historical EPL series. EU membership means its labor rules are also shaped by directives on collective redundancies, transfers of undertakings, and fixed-term work. The OECD EPL overall strictness index is 2.24/6.0, where higher values indicate stricter rules on individual and collective dismissal.

Detailed tenure-based notice and severance data is not published for Lithuania in the current release, so readers should rely on the aggregate scores above and consult national statutes for specifics.

Historically, Lithuania's OECD EPL score moved from 2.63 in 2014 to 2.24 in 2019, showing the direction of reform over time.

ILO EPLex
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No data available
B-READY 2025
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No data available
OECD EPL
2.24
out of 6.0 · Rank #39
OECD EPL

Historical Protection Score

Year Overall Score Visual
2014 2.63
2015 2.63
2016 2.63
2017 2.63
2018 2.24
2019 2.24

Scale: 0-6 (higher = more protective). Source: OECD Employment Protection Legislation database.

Countries with similar labor-regulation profiles

Two peer sets for Lithuania on metrics that vary across the full country corpus, not regional containment. The nearest EPLex block below stays on the ILO composite; these neighborhoods use B-READY, OECD, or statutory-duration axes.

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Understanding EPL Scores How Lithuania's 1/3 source mix maps onto EPLex, OECD, and B-READY. Reading Employment Statistics How to read OECD EPL strictness next to Lithuania's historical series. Non-Compete Agreements Post-employment restraints outside the EPLex composite for Lithuania.

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Data sourced from official OECD, ILO, and World Bank employment-protection datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainEmploy

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Primary sources: ILO EPLex, World Bank B-READY, OECD EPL.

PlainEmploy is rendered directly from the OECD Employment Protection Legislation indicators, the ILO EPLex database, and the World Bank B-READY labor pillar, no number is typed in by an editor. This country's composite scores and comparisons are computed directly from the underlying OECD/EPLex/B-READY tables, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-30.