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European Commission has intervened in the bargaining procedures in Romania, Greece, Spain, Ireland and Italy and weakened the position of unions.

The coalition government of Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen has decided to cut the corporate tax rate from the current 24.5 per cent to 20.0 per cent. The three trade union confederations (Akava, SAK...

The trade union confederations SAK and STTK have published their own programme for economic growth. "High salaries are not the reason for problems in the Finnish economy, there are other reasons...

Newly appointed Director General Jyri Häkämies proposed that weekly working hours be increased by two hours per week.

Finland introduced a reverse charge in VAT (value added taxation) for the construction sector on 1 April 2011

Mikko Mäenpää, the President of the Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK, spoke on Wednesday in Lisbon.

SAK/Palkkatyöläinen (03.10.2012 - Aino Pietarinen) "In the EU, decisions are now being made in the name of economic policy coordination that will have a bigger impact on wage and salary earners than...

All workers at new construction sites in Finland must now have identification documents containing their personal taxation numbers, under new legislation that came into force on 1 September 2012...

A new Union Council for the Trade Union Pro will be elected after the vacation period. The voting will begin on August 27 and end on September 7. Some 250 rank and file members are standing for...

The new government programme includes several goals held dear by Pro, such as working life regulation, more training during working hours and three-tier cooperation. Trade Union Pro regards the new...

The three union confederations SAK, STTK and Akava together with the Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland SASK met all Finland's ambassadors at the Annual Meeting of Finnish Heads of Mission to...

-The results of the policy have remained poor, says Jaakko Kiander, former director of the Labour Institute for Economic Research.

More than 90 per cent of Finnish politicians expressed a desire to defend the Nordic welfare model in the European Union.

Jorma Malinen was elected new chairperson of the Trade Union Pro at the weekend.

The first vice-chairperson of the Service Union United PAM Jaana Ylitalo was elected to chair the UNI Europa Property Services at its conference in Liverpool.

Foreign seasonal wild berry pickers should be employed properly, proposes rapporteur Markku Wallin.

Members of JHL and Tehy unions organised a Gloves off -demonstration in the reception area of Turku University Hospital.

Approximate estimates about the age at which Finnish employees are likely to retire have jumped considerably in five years.

The number of labour disputes has risen somewhat in Finland, though the number is still low.

In April the Finnish government introduced a proposal for a law making it compulsory for employers to report on gender pay gaps.

Trade union confederations are demanding that work to improve a contractor's obligations and liability should continue.

Forestry and paper company Stora Enso has admitted that its joint venture in Pakistan is using child labour.

Serious disagreement over the future of the job alternation leave system continues.

In real terms wage dumping is mainly affecting young people and immigrants.

Helsinki district court recently reversed the trend in one of these with a ruling favourable to the employers: it says the companies have right to pay wages which are below the generally binding...

2014 brings with it some changes in regard to unemployment benefits, parental leave and developing employees' professional skills.

The harm caused by alcohol abuse is estimated at between 4 and 6.5 billion euro a year.

The highest number of redundancies took place in the industry services provider Metso which let go 1,157 employees. It was followed by Renesas Mobile 808, ship builder STX 670 and Nokia with 579...

All three trade union confederations Akava, SAK and STTK look on the new national agreement for wages and salaries positively given the present severe economic situation. The confederations signed the...

The deadline for the national labour market settlement on Friday 25 October at 16.00 is fast approaching, but most of the negotiations at union level are still open. Some negotiations have not even...

Thai berry pickers arrive on tourist visas and are not employed by the companies buying the berries. They themselves must shoulder the risk of a meagre crop or the possibility of illness while working...

The sale of Nokia mobile phones to Microsoft came as a shock to Finland. For Finland Nokia is more than just a major company, it is an integral part of the Finnish success story. Nokia was the main...

The fate of the national agreement on wages and salaries is now in the hands of union and employer organisations. They have until 25 October to bargain for new collective agreements within their...

The trade union confederations SAK, STTK and Akava reached a central agreement on wages and salaries with the employers’ organisations on Friday 30 August. The agreement offers a very modest rise in...

The emerging problem is in-work poverty, when a wage or salary is not enough to meet the necessary costs of living.

Minerals processing company tops the list.

The 30 biggest Finnish multinational corporations reduced their personnel in Finland by approximately 32 500.

"Sometimes it is good to use slightly unorthodox methods, and in this case it was worth it."

"If we want to learn from the German model, we should learn from the export know-how of the companies and working hours banks" says Pro director Markku Palokangas.

"As the employees were forbidden to talk to anyone, the case proceeded slowly."

"Transferring business to another company is not a legitimate reason for the new employer to start making people redundant. "

Researcher Liisa Lähteenmäki criticises trade unions for being slow to recognise the problems in the status of agency labour. Now unions have noticed, that employers often prefer agency labour to...

"Sometimes it is difficult to deal with the employer, as we have Finnish law and they are going by USA law. This creates differences in views", says shop steward, Timo Pulli.

Salaried employees of TeliaSonera and its subsidiaries began a two-day strike today 27 at 6 a.m. It will end on Thursday March 28 at 23.59.

– When a financially sound bank opts to give notice to employees it has the effect of precipitating a panic, says Antti Rinne, the President of the salaried employees' trade union Pro.

The return of a bicycle factory from Taiwan to the small Finnish coastal town of Hanko is one part of the emerging reshoring, the return of industrial production back to Europe and the USA.

The law concerning paternity leave in Finland has been amended since the beginning of the year, allowing the father to take longer paid paternal leave. This is a part of the policy to divide childcare...