Financial position - 02.05.2018 klo 12.15

PAM’s economic survey: Employer companies are now doing well, but PAM members are increasingly worried about their own finances

PAM’s economic survey again forecast a strong year for service sector companies. However, employees’ own financial situation seems to have fallen behind growth in the economy, and unemployment is a growing worry.

Pay rise - 02.05.2018 klo 09.26

Pay rise in the hospitality services sector from 1 May

Workers in the hospitality services sector will get a pay rise at the start of May. Remember to check that your wages have been paid correctly!

Labour legislation - 19.04.2018 klo 14.13

PAM’s Selin: Government has the wrong medicine for improving employment – it will increase inequality and is ineffective

The cutbacks in job security proposed by the Sipilä government, which in PAM’s opinion are dangerous, will not promote employment and treat young people and those working in small workplaces unfairly. Undermining job security is an old-fashioned way of trying to increase companies’ competitiveness. Selin points out that a fixed term employment...

Labour legislation - 18.04.2018 klo 10.40

Would easier dismissal mean that employees are silenced?

The government is planning to make it easier to fire workers in small companies. “I wouldn’t bring in legislation that would allow employers to arbitrarily dismiss an employee just by clicking their fingers and then replace them with someone else”, says Mia Suominen at PAM.

Collective agreement negotiations - 16.04.2018 klo 10.45

Negotiations on collective agreements continue this week for copying and printing sector, moving services and security guards

Security guards are the last of PAM's bigger professional groups, for which the union has not bargained new working and salary conditions yet. Negotiations are held at the beginning of the week.

Collective agreement negotiations - 10.04.2018 klo 12.31

Four new collective agreements achieved – threats of substantially worse conditions prevented

New collective agreements were made for the golfing, bingo and photofinishing lab sectors, household appliances and equipment servicing and the service machine sector. Despite a difficult start to the negotiations, PAM managed to prevent the employers’ objectives of cutting working conditions and increasing employers’ right to impose conditions.

Collective agreement negotiations - 09.04.2018 klo 11.40

Negotiations for security guards now starting

Collective agreement negotiations for security guards begin this week. The security sector is the last of the large PAM sectors where working and pay conditions have not yet been agreed.

Social dumping - 04.04.2018 klo 14.03

PAM’s Ylitalo: The way to counter social dumping is through collective agreements, monitoring and criminalisation of underpay

A range of tools are needed to curb various forms of exploitation of workers in the labour market, i.e. social dumping. PAM’s Collective Bargaining Director, Jaana Ylitalo, highlights collective agreements, laws and public authorities’ resources.

Unemployment security - 03.04.2018 klo 09.07

First review period of the active model coming to an end – service sector processing times will not be much longer

The first 65-day assessment period of the so-called active model for unemployment security has now ended. PAM’s Unemployment Fund does not yet have information on how many persons the 4.65% cut will affect.

Collective agreement negotiations - 26.03.2018 klo 10.32

Collective agreement negotiations with Palta to continue before Easter

There will be intensive negotiations on new collective agreements in Palta special sectors before Easter. This week PAM will be negotiating on collective agreements in several sectors with the employers’ federation, Service Sector Employers Palta.