The overall objective is to promote decent working conditions for workers, fair competition for companies and sustainable welfare systems.
The project included joint activities in close cooperation between the labour inspectorates in Lithuania and Norway:
- Information campaign to increase knowledge among Lithuanian employers and employees about labour regulations in Norway and improve working conditions. The campaign attracted more than 28.000 people to the webpage www.knowyourrights.no which provide information in Lithuanian.
- Annual seminars to increase knowledge in both countries by sharing best practice about effective ways to fight undeclared work, to establish fair competition in the labour market and to provide safe working conditions.
- Staff visits for learning to enhance knowledge on inspection practices, culture and legal regulations in both countries. Four inspectors from Lithuania visited a cooperation centre in Norway in October 2021, and they were introduced with its structure, activities and main tasks. The inspectors also participated in joint inspections as observers. A second staff visit for learning was held in Lithuania in October 2022.
- Staff visits for assistance involved mutual assistance in practical inspection cases, either by doing inspections in both countries simultaneously or by being part of inspections in the other country.
- Joint authorities' activities to strengthen Lithuanian's fight against undeclared work by transferring the Norwegian model of joint authority cooperation on national level and to establish a bilateral joint authority cooperation. Cooperation between Norwegian and Lithuanian authorities (Norwegian Labour Inspectorate, Tax inspectorate, Social Security institution and Police from one side and Labour inspectorate, Tax inspectorate, Social Insurance Fund Board, Financial Crime Investigation Service, Police and State Border Guard Service from Lithuanian side) started to become intensive.