Finland
Updates include changes to the amendments to the Act on Equality between Women and Men to reduce pregnancy and family leave discrimination, scheduling of leave carried forward, limitation period for working time-related claims, the Workplace Data Protection Act, the Co-operation Act, implementation of the EU Platform Work Directive, and implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive tables, reflecting new information to the status, scope and expected timing of these future developments.
Training and development rules have been revised, including changes to employer co-operation obligations, the removal of some training-related financial support, and updated apprenticeship arrangements.
Employment law changes affect fixed-term contracts without a justified reason, termination rights of fixed-term contracts after six months, employers’ re-employment obligations and post-employment occupational healthcare obligations for employers with at least 30 employees.
The recruitment and selection information has been revised to note expected pay transparency requirements, reflect changes to employer co-operation obligations, update notification and residence permit rules, and to cover the reduced lay-off notice period and changes to re-employment obligations.
Changes include 2026 pension, income tax and social security contribution rates, clarified statutory sick pay and KELA sickness allowance rules, and details on the expected implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
This chapter has been revised to reflect information on union density, updated change negotiation thresholds and periods, information on work stoppages, political industrial action, and new rules on essential work during industrial action.
Employers should note updated health and safety requirements on workplace radon assessment and statutory accident insurance, including the annual wage threshold that triggers the insurance obligation.
Proposed pay transparency obligations, discrimination claim time limits and proposed protections relating to fixed-term work, pregnancy and family leave have been added or revised in this chapter.
New information has been added to holiday and holiday pay, parental leave, leave due to other family reasons, other leave, part-time workers, variable working time contracts, fixed-term workers, insolvency of employer, disciplinary and grievance procedures, bullying, whistleblowing, data and privacy protection, and artificial Intelligence, reflecting new and forthcoming statutory rules, updated 2026 figures, and clarifications to existing law.
Employers may now conclude one fixed-term employment contract of up to one year without a justified reason in limited circumstances, with related changes to information, work-offer and termination rules.
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