{"id":22387,"date":"2026-11-09T11:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teise.org\/?p=22387"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:27:05","slug":"20261109-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/20261109-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Women\u2019s Employment: What Role Does Labour Law Play?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Kristina Ambrazevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, a researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, has published an article entitled \u201cReconciling work, care and ageing: labour law structuring older women\u2019s employment in Lithuania and Latvia\u201d in the international academic journal \u201cCommunity, Work & Family\u201d.<\/p>

In this publication, K. Ambrazevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 seeks to assess the role of labour law in the context of population ageing, particularly in enabling older women to remain in paid employment. The study focuses on two countries \u2013 Lithuania and Latvia \u2013 and examines three key areas: employment flexibility, workplace and job task adjustments, and protection against discrimination.<\/p>

In both countries, employment flexibility is the main means of enabling older women to reconcile work with changing health conditions and care responsibilities. However, this opportunity is largely based on the right to request changes to working conditions, with the final decision left to the employer\u2019s discretion. In both countries, workplace and job task adjustments are generally made only when health problems arise or work capacity declines, rather than being used as a preventive measure to preserve professional capabilities. Although discrimination on the grounds of age and sex is prohibited at all stages of employment in both Lithuania and Latvia, the legal framework focuses primarily on individual grounds of discrimination and the resolution of individual disputes. As a result, discrimination arising from the intersection of age, sex and care responsibilities often remains legally unrecognised.<\/p>

The researcher concludes that current labour law primarily enables individual adaptation but does not sufficiently function as a collective instrument for addressing the challenges of population ageing and gender inequality. Consequently, responsibility for reconciling work, care responsibilities and well-being is largely shifted onto women themselves.<\/p>

The article is available here: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13668803.2026.2749799<\/a><\/p>

The article was written as part of the project \u201c(Not)prolonging the working life of older women: legal environment, guarantees and intentions (VAM)\u201d, implemented by the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences and funded by the Research Council of Lithuania. For more information about the project, see https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/projektai\/vam\/<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tarptautiniame mokslo \u017eurnale \u201eCommunity, Work & Family\u201c publikuotas LSMC Teis\u0117s instituto mokslo darbuotojos dr. Kristinos Ambrazevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117s straipsnis \u201eReconciling work, care and ageing: labour law structuring older women\u2019s employment in Lithuania and Latvia\u201c (liet. Darbo, prie\u017ei\u016bros pareig\u0173 ir sen\u0117jimo derinimas: kaip darbo teis\u0117 formuoja vyresnio am\u017eiaus moter\u0173 u\u017eimtum\u0105 Lietuvoje ir Latvijoje). \u0160ioje publikacijoje K. Ambrazevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 siekia \u012fvertinti darbo teis\u0117s vaidmen\u012f visuomen\u0117s sen\u0117jimo kontekste, ypa\u010d sudarant s\u0105lygas vyresnio am\u017eiaus moterims toliau dirbti apmokam\u0105 darb\u0105. Tyrimui pasirinktos dvi \u0161alys \u2013 Lietuva ir Latvija. Daugiausia d\u0117mesio skiriama u\u017eimtumo lankstumui, darbo vietos ir darbo u\u017eduo\u010di\u0173 pritaikymui bei apsaugai nuo diskriminacijos. Abiejose valstyb\u0117se u\u017eimtumo lankstumas yra pagrindin\u0117 priemon\u0117, leid\u017eianti vyresnio am\u017eiaus moterims derinti darb\u0105 su sveikatos poky\u010diais ir prie\u017ei\u016bros pareigomis. Ta\u010diau \u0161i galimyb\u0117 daugiausia grind\u017eiama teise pra\u0161yti pakeisti darbo s\u0105lygas, o sprendimas paliekamas darbdavio nuo\u017ei\u016brai. Darbo vietos ir u\u017eduo\u010di\u0173 pritaikymas abiejose valstyb\u0117se da\u017eniausiai vykdomas tik pasirei\u0161kus sveikatos sutrikimams ar suma\u017e\u0117jus darbingumui, o ne kaip prevencin\u0117 priemon\u0117 profesiniams geb\u0117jimams i\u0161saugoti. Lietuvos ir Latvijos teis\u0117je diskriminacija d\u0117l am\u017eiaus ir lyties draud\u017eiama visais darbo santyki\u0173 etapais, ta\u010diau teisinis reguliavimas daugiausia orientuotas \u012f atskirus diskriminacijos pagrindus ir individuali\u0173 gin\u010d\u0173 sprendim\u0105. D\u0117l to diskriminacija, kylanti d\u0117l am\u017eiaus, lyties ir prie\u017ei\u016bros pareig\u0173 s\u0105veikos, da\u017enai lieka teisi\u0161kai nepasteb\u0117ta. Mokslinink\u0117 daro i\u0161vad\u0105, kad dabartin\u0117 darbo teis\u0117 pirmiausia sudaro s\u0105lygas individualiam prisitaikymui, ta\u010diau nepakankamai veikia kaip kolektyvin\u0117 visuomen\u0117s sen\u0117jimo ir ly\u010di\u0173 nelygyb\u0117s problem\u0173 sprendimo priemon\u0117. Atsakomyb\u0117 u\u017e darbo, prie\u017ei\u016bros pareig\u0173 ir gerov\u0117s derinim\u0105 d\u0117l to didele dalimi tenka pa\u010dioms moterims. Straipsn\u012f galima rasti \u010dia: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13668803.2026.2749799 Straipsnis para\u0161ytas LSMC Teis\u0117s institutui \u012fgyvendinant Lietuvos mokslo tarybos finansuojam\u0105 projekt\u0105 \u201eVyresnio am\u017eiaus moter\u0173 darbinio gyvenimo (ne)ilginimas: teisin\u0117 aplinka, garantijos ir ketinimai\u201c (VAM). Pla\u010diau apie \u0161\u012f projekt\u0105 \u017er. https:\/\/teise.org\/projektai\/vam\/<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naujienos","category-268"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22387"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22402,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387\/revisions\/22402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teise.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}