Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Finland as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Finland: New Working Hours Act effective January 1, 2020
Back in June 2018, we reported that a new law was drafted that would open up more scope for overtime and flexiwork …
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Finland: Earnings of wage and salary earners highest in the most populated municipalities
Levels of pay are often correlated with the size of the urban area where a worker is employed, although seldom measured in pay statistics …
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Finland: Number of accidents at work 132,000 in 2016
According to the latest figures from Statistics Finland, slightly under 132,000 occupational accidents took place in Finland in 2016; 17% of work-related accidents occurred whilst an employee was commuting …
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Finland: GDPR has finally been incorporated into Finnish law
The GDPR has finally been incorporated into Finnish law …
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Finland: Income tax system to be changed next year
Staring from 2019, the different income ceilings per pay period on tax cards will be replaced by one overall income ceiling for the entire year …
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Finland: Small company concession
The national parliament has given a confidence vote in support of a measure that will allow employers with up to ten employees to dismiss individuals on personal grounds with impunity …
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Finland: Work hours proposals announced
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment has issued a draft law that will loosen up the current working time regime, opening up more scope for overtime and flexiwork …
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Finland: Construction sector reaches new two-year bargaining agreement
The Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries (RT) has reached agreement with the Construction Trade Union on a national sectoral wage deal for 2018/19 …
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Finland: Universal basic income experiment
At the beginning of 2017 the Finnish government established a universal basic income experiment involving 2000 unemployed people aged 25-58 …
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Finland: Some 2500 electricians threaten week-long strike
The Finnish Electrical Workers’ Union stopped negotiations over a new nation agreement back on February 20th 2018 and have since been in consultation with a national conciliator over a proposed 24 hour increase in annual working time …
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Finland: Financial sector concludes protracted collective bargaining talks
A dispute in the finance sector has now been resolved through a National Conciliator …
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Finland: New rights for zero-hour employees
If a draft law on zero-hour contracts is agreed and comes into force – as planned – on June 1st 2018, employers will have to justify that their needs are so varied that cannot maintain permanent staff at all times …
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Finland: Collective agreements reached in the hospitality sector
A collective agreement has now been reached covering 85,000 workers in the hospitality sector …
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Finland: New act on trade secrets
Many, particularly senior, employees have clauses in their employment contracts obliging them to respect trade secrets, but in Finland this is about to be backed by statutory obligations …
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Finland: Work-related deaths
Although the number of annual work-related deaths due to accidents has been halved from 60 to 30 over the last twenty years the number of people dying each year from occupational diseases – such as cancer and respiratory disorders account for a further 2,200 …
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