We are pleased to announce that the Research Council of Lithuania has awarded funding for the postdoctoral fellowship project of Dr Gabrielė Taminskaitė-Kočiūnė, a researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, entitled “Work–Life Balance: Legal Measures and Their Implementation” (LEGATO). The project will be carried out from 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2027.
The research will analyse the legal measures that ensure work–life balance in Lithuania, their goals, and their practical application. It will examine how the requirements arising from European Union and international law are integrated into the national legal system, particularly in Lithuania (e.g., the obligation to ensure a child’s relationship with both parents and to create opportunities for mothers to return more smoothly to the labour market), as well as identify legal measures that are applied exclusively at the national level.
The novelty of the study lies in its aim to identify and reveal which legal instruments (together with the services and measures they guarantee), designed to ensure work–life balance, are, should be, and could be made available not only to families but also to single, working-age individuals without legally recognised family obligations.
By employing a comparative analysis method and using publicly available indicators such as the standard of living of society and its individual groups, health levels, life satisfaction, the national average wage, demographic trends, and other relevant data, Dr Taminskaitė-Kočiūnė will seek to identify good foreign legal practices that could be adopted, as well as those that should be avoided, in ensuring work–life balance.
The project also plans to publish a monograph in Lithuanian summarizing the research findings, which will conclude with recommendations for addressing the issues examined. Interim research findings will also be presented at scientific conferences and published in science communication (popular science) articles.
Postdoctoral Fellow – Dr Gabrielė Taminskaitė-Kočiūnė. – Dr. Gabrielė Taminskaitė-Kočiūnė.
Postdoctoral Fellowship supervisor – prof. dr. Ingrida Mačernytė-Panomariovienė.
The project is funded Lietuvos mokslo taryba (LMTLT), sutarties Nr. S-PD-23-106/5T-1.
More information about the project here.