The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour is the responsible body for developing legislation for the transposition of the Directive. They have held meetings with social partners for months and the draft proposal is likely to be published soon.
The platform lobby has carried out a public campaign claiming that platform workers do not want the Platform Work Directive. Unions are organising a public campaign in response to this.
It is likely that the Directive will not be transposed until late 2026.
The main challenge unions are facing in the transposition is they lack resources for public campaign and advocacy work and they are concerned the platform lobby may succeed in keeping the status quo.
The positive thing is there are people in the Lithuanian government from trade union backgrounds and therefore the government is quite amenable to a trade union perspective.