Legal regulation problems of employment contract termination on employer's initiative

ENThe relevance of this study. The establishment of labor relations in today's society is one of the main guarantors of material well-being, or more precisely financial situation, and security. Having a job makes a person feel safe, which in turn affects more productive and higher-performing work. Yet it often happens that a person loses this guarantor of his or her security and material well-being and is fired. The large numbers of unemployed people registered in Lithuania show that job loss and related unemployment is one of the problems of the whole society. In Lithuania alone in 2018. 148,242 unemployed were registered in 2019, and in 2019 – 144 989 [1]. According to the data of the Employment Service, in 2021. January 1 There were 277,100 unemployed in Lithuania, which is 16.1 percent. of the total working age population of the country. The main problem. The direct impact of quarantine bans and the general economic slowdown are leading to an increase in the number of terminations. Termination of the employment contract at the request of the employee or by agreement between the employee and the employer is sufficiently clear to the institutes of employment law [2]. In the context of a pandemic, it is considered that an employee, as a weaker party to an employment relationship, may not only lose a stable source of income due to a closed business, but may also abuse the employer's statutory right to dismiss workers. conditions for these workers to return to work. The following tasks: 1. To define the concept of an employment contract terminated at the initiative of the employer. 2. To examine the essential aspects of the legal regulation of the employment contract upon its termination at the initiative of the employer. 3. Identify the problems of legal regulation of the employment contract after its termination at the initiative of the employer.4. To analyze the problems of the employment contract after its termination at the initiative of the employer in court practice. The aim of this work to analyze the main problems of legal regulation and application of the employment contract after its termination at the initiative of the employer. The paper concluded that ttermination of an employment contract is the termination of the rights and obligations of the parties to the employment contract, regardless of who initiates the termination of this relationship. Meanwhile, the termination of the employment contract at the initiative of the employer is the end of the relationship between the parties to the employment contract when the employer is given the right to initiate the termination of this relationship. The novelty Although several scientific articles can be found on termination of employment, a more detailed and in-depth analysis of termination at the initiative of the employer is lacking. In view of this, the novelty. As the result the regulation of dismissal of an employee, when the right of initiative to terminate the employment relationship is transferred to the "hands" of the employer, is quite comprehensive and ensures the existence of fair treatment of the employee. Theused methodology document analysis, systematic analysis, comparative, logical-analytical method, and generalization methods. Keywords: employer, employee, employment contract, termination, employer initiative.