Pam Magazine: Half of Faces are New, All of the Time

Major property services companies have a turnover rate amongst cleaners as high as 60% per year. N-Clean and Lassila&Tikanoja have the highest rates.

Pam Magazine: Scoring as the Basis of Wage

Terttu Lämsä and Esa Nieminen urge property services employees to demand that their work be scored. They should also pay close attention to their payslips to confirm that this April's wage increases are paid.

Pam Magazine: A cold experience in Finland

Work at the Kakslauttanen holiday resort was cut short for many. The employees were left in debt from the expense of coming to Finland.

Finnish retail warehouse workers’ handling boycott of disreputable juices aims at enhanced social responsibility

The retail warehouse workers declare a three-day handling boycott of the pineapple juices produced in questionable conditions.The background of the decision is the Finnwatch follow-up report Ojasta allikkoon (“Out of a Ditch, into a Pond") published in January, according to which the production chains of Pirkka, Rainbow and Eldorado juices are...

A New Year and some new laws and regulations

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

Number of redundancies still high in 2013

The number of redundancies remained on a high level already for the second year in a row during 2013. A total of 14,500 employees lost their job, according to statistics from the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK.

Ann Selin is a candidate for UNI Global Union presidency

Pam Magazine 19/13: Don't be ill without a permission

The threshold for being ill is getting higher: employees are instructed to ask for a permission to go and see a physician, or they are asked to have their superior take their temperature.

Pam Magazine 18/13: Sick-leave pay halved out of "fairness"

Why is this? Finland’s Reiluja Vuokratöitä (i.e., fair temporary work) identification creates new criteria for temp-worker employment relationships? The revamped temp-labour rules only bring improved conditions for workers who previously worked under bad terms. A salesperson who had the wages of a fifth-year employee was surprised to discover that...

Pam Magazine 17/13: The court decision on language skills supplements makes conflict resolution easier

That's it? That´s it, the Labour Court told Seppälä Oy.