Trade Union News from Finland
Tekijä (11.09.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) The Industrial Union sees no grounds for the Government proposal for amendments in the Alien Act. Nor are the planned changes reasonable. The draft does not answer the needs of society and is based on an inadequate understanding on how the labour market works.
The proposed three months time to find new employment is too short for anyone, the union says. Especially difficult for a person coming from abroad.
Lack of networks and language skills, insufficient knowledge of how Finnish society works and discrimination when it comes to recruiting hinder finding employment. The risk to use illegal paid employment services or to grab other suspicious jobs will grow, the union stresses.
Tekijä (06.06.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) Nowadays, multilingual workplaces are becoming more and more prevalent in Finland. This is, of course, reflected in the Industrial Union membership.
The union wants to be better able to serve all of its members, and one way to do this is through better multilingual information.
At the end of May 2024, the Industrial Union published the app Teollisuusliiton Hermes. It provides updated information about working and living in Finland, for employees and employers.
Tekijä (06.06.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) The Teollisuusliiton Hermes app is updated continuously. It collects key information on the Industrial Union collective agreements, services and membership benefits.
You can download the app, for free, at all main app stores.
The app is working not only in our two national languages Finnish and Swedish, but also in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Estonian, Romanian and Vietnamese. The Union website gives information in these nine languages.
Tekijä (15.05.2024 - Heikki Jokinen) The planned changes in the local bargaining legislation will distort competition. In the worst case scenario, pay might drop by even tens of thousands of euros a year.
Foreign employers active in Finland could take advantage of the new legislation. In these companies, employees are usually not organised in the Industrial Union, and there might be high turnovers in staff also. Among such employees, knowledge of the Finnish legislation and collective agreements is probably pretty limited, too.
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