Other employment law issues

Disciplinary and grievance procedures, internal rules, employment records, transfer of undertakings.

Finland: Whistleblowing protection

Finland has implemented the 2019 EU Directive  on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law …

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Finland :: Human rights

Finland has ratified most of the International Human Rights Treaties; apart from Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance which was signed – but not ratified – and the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers – which was not ratified nor signed …

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Finland :: Applicable law

◉ Cross-border rights When drafting any employment-related contractual document it is always important to determine under which law the contract shall be administered …

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Finland :: Transfer of undertakings

Under the Business Contracts Act (2001), the transfer of all or part of a business must not, in itself, affect the rights of those employed by the transferred entity …

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Finland :: Employee inventions

The Act on the Right in Employee Inventions gives an employee full rights to a patentable invention, unless inventions are specifically assigned on a contractual basis to the ownership of their employer …

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