LAKRS - The Latvian Public Services Employees Trade Union
LAKRS - The Latvian Public Services Employees Trade Union
 

 

LAKRS for members

  • Organises negotiations, represents and defends socio-economic rights and interests by signing collective agreements.
  • Offers free legal consultations:
    • on work rights issues;
    • on compensation for damage to health.
  • Prepares applications to employment arbitration commissions and for court cases.
  • Represents and defends befor the courts.
  • Provides information about the Unio's news in the paper "LAKRS VESTIS".
  • Educates activists for union work.
  • Presents members demands in three-way talks between employers, the government and unions.
  • Provides opportunities to gain new experience in trade union work through cooperation with related Trade Unions in Scandinavia and other European countries.
  • Provides opportunities to actively participate in union activities, in decision making, and to be a candidate for offices in the union
  • A Fund of Protection of social interests has been established, and one-off material assistance can be given in the event of:
    • Workplace accidents;
    • Hospitalization;
    • Long term convalescence at home;
    • Treatment in sanatoriums,
    • The birth of children, and others.
  • Unites active young people in the YOUTH CENTRE and organises events.
  • Savings and loan association has been established.

 

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© LAKRS, 2007. Izstrādāts: "NT Piedzīvojumi".