General instructions for overtime ban
An overtime ban affecting almost all PAM members is in force from 3 October until 23 October.
Overtime ban 3 – 23 October 2018
The Service Union United overtime ban will start on 3 October 2018 at 00:00 and continue until 23 October 2018 at 24:00. The overtime ban affects 26 agreement sectors.
Agreement sectors affected by the overtime ban
Alko Oy shop employees collective agreement
Pharmacy employees collective agreement
Customer service and telemarketing sector collective agreement
Avecra train service personnel collective agreement
Bingo employees collective agreement
Cinema collective agreement
Special industry collective agreement
Golf sector collective agreement
Hankkija Oy sales personnel protocol
Ski resort sector collective agreement
Hairdressing sector collective agreement
Amusement, theme and adventure parks collective agreement
Retail ICT clerical staff collective agreement
Retail collective agreement
Facility services sector employees collective agreement
Household appliances and equipment servicing and service machine collective agreement
Photofinishing labs collective agreement
Hospitality collective agreement - supervisors
Hospitality collective agreement - employees
Activity programme sector collective agreement
Finnish National Opera technical small groups and technical supervisors and technical experts collective agreement
Finnish National Opera technical and administrative collective agreement
Warehousing and transport supervisors collective agreement
Veikkaus employees collective agreement
Retail supervisors collective agreements
Joint agreement YLE
The following agreement sectors are excluded from the overtime ban:
Reproduction and printing sector collective agreement, Makuuni Oy collective agreement, Sales promoters company-specific collective agreements, Removal services sector collective agreement, Framework agreement, Martti Porthan Ltd organ-building factory employees collective agreement, Veikko Virtanen Ltd organ-building factory employees collective agreement, Organisation officials association collective agreement, Security guarding sector collective agreement.
General instructions for members affected by overtime ban
During the overtime ban employees do not work overtime.
Overtime is always voluntary for an employee. Once the overtime ban has started, employees affected by it exercise this right and refuse to work overtime if offered by their employer.
An employer is not entitled to pressurise an employee to work overtime or to change working time schedules because of the overtime ban.
During the overtime ban, hours are not accumulated in working time accounts or similar systems. During the overtime ban the use of external labour or e.g. on-call employees or agency employees is not acceptable, because then an employer would be attempting to break a legal overtime ban.
What is overtime?
The general rule is that overtime is work in excess of 40 hours a week. If working time in a sector is organised for example in 3-week periods, overtime is generally work in excess of 120 hours in a three-week period. The same hourly limits apply to part-time workers.
A workplace may operate a working time adjustment period, where working time is not limited to the above maximum working hours; working time is flexible within the adjustment periods of the system. Overtime in different sectors are explained in detail here.
Employees can ask the shop steward at their workplace for help. PAM’s membership service also helps Mon-Fri from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. by telephone 030 100620 and by email: lakko@pam.fi.
You can see the opening times of the regional offices in your region here.
Part-time workers and the overtime ban
During the overtime ban, part-time workers can accept additional hours up to 40 hours a week. Any additional working hours offered after this are overtime, and during the ban an employee must refuse them.
Overtime ban and emergency work
The overtime ban does not affect emergency work (Working Hours Act, Section 21). Emergency work may only be required in the exceptional circumstances provided for in the Working Hours Act. An employer must give a written explanation of the reason for emergency work to the labour inspectorate. In practice emergency work includes e.g. work that prevents life-threatening situations from occurring.
The ban also does not affect work where it would endanger critical societal functions or cause harm to the public interest. Doing this type of work during the overtime ban on flextime accumulation requires permission from Service Union United.
Correction in the text made Monday 1 October at 1.40 pm: The political strike will start on 3 October at 00:00 and not at 10 a.m.
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Strike 3 October 2018