Workers have the right to get pay for 14 days, even if work is prohibited because of fire

The entire shopping centre was destroyed in the fire and many workers jobs were suspended. There was a post office, Alko, restaurant and grocery store in the shopping centre.

When a fire, natural disaster or other event that the employer or worker could not influence stops work, the employer can stop paying salary. But workers have the right to get pay for 14 days-

“If the employer cannot give other work after that, then the worker is entitled to unemployment allowance”, says PAM:s Advisory Services Manager Juha Ojala.

“Therefore the worker needs to register at the TE Office at the latest when salary payments stop”