The concept of a gross breach of work duties according to article 235 part 2 (11) of the labour code and its practical application

The institute of the rude work duty violation just recently has appeared in the Labor Law - when the new Labor Code came into effect. The concept of this violation and the consolidation of the non-finite list of the rude work duty violation cause many problems in applying those rules of law in the practice. The definition of the rude work duty violation given in the Labor Code is not clear and comprehensive; the given list of violations is just an example; the position of legislator to consolidate other violations breaking the working order in a rude way causes various evaluation and interpretation problems. In the Labor Law doctrine and practice emerge the disagreements regarding those other cases mentioned in the Article 235 Section 2 Clause 11 of the Labor Code. Therefore in this work the concept of the rude work duty violation is being analyzed at first and later, regarding the systemic Labor Code explanations and the directions given by the Supreme Court of Lithuania, there are attempts to reveal the features and criterions according which other violations which are not listed in the Labor Code are attributed to the rude work duty violation. In this work it was important to highlight the most actual questions regarding the application of the clause 11 of this article and to explain how the conclusions of the Supreme Court of Lithuania are coherent with legal regulations and to reveal the relevance of it. The institute of the rude work duty violation is very important in the Labor law because it allows to the employer to apply the most rigorous disciplinary punishment for the single rude work duty violation – to stand off. This work is useful and relevant not only because of given comprehensive analysis of violations breaking the working order, but and because of the clear and precise presentation of the disciplinary punishments in order to apply suitably the disciplinary responsibility rising because of the rude work duty violation