The practice of lithuania's supreme court in deciding cases of pecuniary liability of employees

The objective of the employee’s material liability is dual. On the one part it is necessary to ensure protection of employer’s constitutional rights of ownership and in the case of its violation to guarantee full or partial indemnification of caused damage, on the other part it is very important to protect interests of an employee, as a weaker part of the employment contract. Despite the fact that material liability of employees systematically regulated by the Labor Code of the Republic of Lithuania, legal regulation is not sufficiently detailed to provide a decision for every dispute arising in practice, therefore, particularly important to analyse practice of the courts, as a subject entitled to the interpretation and application of law. The main objective of this master's work – to analyse employees material liability and to discover the main issues, arising when the rules regulating the employee‘s material liability are applied in practice. The masters work provides a complex employee‘s material liability study and analysis of: the concept of employee‘s material liability, its definitions and objectives, the application grounds (common and special conditions of material liability), criterions of determination of the amount of damage to be compensated, the order of recovery of damage caused by an employee, as well as provides the concise research of the company’s manager’s liability issues in the practice of the Supreme Court of Lithuania. The research of the aspects of the employees material liability specified above, mainly focuses on the analysis of the practice of the Supreme Court of Lithuania and its evaluation