Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Finland as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Finland: Negotiations over paper industry collective labour agreement
A deadlock exists in pay negotiations between the Finnish Forest Industries organisation and the Finnish Paper Workers’ Union …
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Finland: New obligation for employers using fixed-term employment contracts
The Supreme Court has decided (KKO 2017:55) that where individuals are employed on consecutive fixed term contracts their employer has an obligation to assess whether they could be redeployed prior to considering possible non-renewal of a contract …
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Finland: Wages and salaries sum grew by 2% year-on-year in March to May
The three-month rolling trend in annual payroll increases stood in March to May 2017 at 2% …
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Finland: Employers’ Healthcare Obligation Extended
The Finnish Occupational Health Care Act (1383/2001) has been amended and the changes are now fully in force …
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Finland: Family leave allowance and paid annual holiday entitlements
A new family leave allowance is now available to employers from the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (‘Kela’) …
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Finland: Gross monthly regular pay
Over the year to Q1 2017, gross monthly regular pay rose by 0 …
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Finland: Gross wages and salaries
Gross wages and salaries grew, on average, in Finland by 2 …
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Finland: Labour cost, gross wages and salaries
Over the three months to January 2017 gross wages and salaries in Finland’s private sector grew, on average, by 3 …
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Finland: Universal basic income trial
The prospect of 50% of jobs in advanced economies being replaced by automation over the next two decades is encouraging many progressive governments to look for alternative ways to distribute wealth …
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Finland: Nondiscrimination plans
From January 1st 2017 companies employing 30 or more workers in Finland must develop nondiscrimination plans that seek to prevent discrimination across a wide range of distinguishing criteria (Nondiscrimination Act (1325/2014): S7) …
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Finland: Future redundancies
The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK collates regular data on statutory notifications being given to employees ahead of collective redundancies …
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Finland: Basic income experiment
An experiment into what is being called “basic income” is being planned in Finland for 2017-18 …
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Finland: Preparing for 2017
The deadline is fast approaching in Finland for retirement reforms …
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Finland: Demographic crisis emerging
There is a growing demographic crisis in Finland where the number of live births has fallen for the fifth year running and was lower in 2015 than when records began in 1868 …
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Finland: Amendments to the Holidays Act
Amendments to the Finnish Annual Holidays Act took effect on April 1st 2016 …
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