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Category: Working in Finland

Information about working in Finland and about the Finnish labor market.

Employee or not: how to tell the difference

Sometimes it’s not entirely clear whether accepting a job will make you an employee or not. Here, we go through situations that are tricky. We tell you what the general rules are and why it’s important to know what your status is.

December 17, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

Statistics Finland: The majority of critical workers women

This week Statistics Finland published an online article on the critical workers in Finland. We take a look at what it said. This continues a conversation we started in March.

December 10, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

The government to change the non-competition rules of the Employment Contracts Act

The government is planning to change the non-competition rules of the Finnish Employment Contracts Act. In this blog, we’ll take a look at the current legislation and tell you what the proposed changes would mean for employees.

November 19, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

What it’s like to work in Finland: Working Life Barometer 2019

The 2019 Working Life Barometer was just published. We’ll see what that tells you about what it’s like to work in Finland.

November 12, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

Common salary systems in use in Finland

This week in our blog we focus again on salaries. This time we take a look at the most common salary systems in Finland.

October 29, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

A look at fixed-term employment contracts in Finland

In this blog post, we talk about fixed-term employment contracts in Finland: who does them, what are they like, and how people view them.

October 1, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

Interesting new insights into gender segregation in the Finnish labor market

In this blog, we review a recent short study by Statistics Finland. It reveals interesting insights into gender segregation in the Finnish labor market.

September 23, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

A look at corporate leadership in Finland: who are they?

Thus far in our blogs when discussing diversity-related issues in the Finnish job market we’ve concentrated on standard employment relationships. This week we’ll set our sights a bit higher and talk about CEOs in corporate leadership in Finland.

September 17, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

Discrimination in the Finnish job market: pay surveys to the rescue?

In this blog post we examine pay surveys as a possible tool to tackle ethnic discrimination in the Finnish job market.

August 27, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

Salaries in Finland, part II: a focused look

In our second blog about salaries in Finland, we talk about the median salaries of professions related to those with foreign background in Finland.

August 13, 2020January 28, 2022Working in Finland

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