- Labour legislation
- Employment contract and employment relationship
- Working time and annual holiday
- Improving and maintaining employees’ competence
- Non-discrimination and equality in working life
- Protection of privacy at work and working with children
- Co-operation procedure and other personnel representation systems
- Key points of the Co-operation Act
- Negotiation obligation
- Content and timing of negotiation obligation
- Duty to inform representatives of personnel groups
- Undertaking’s general plans, principles and objectives
- Personnel and training plan
- Matters to be handled in the co-operation procedure
- Co-operation procedure when the use of personnel is reduced
- Confidentiality and sanctions
- Co-operation within a Finnish group of undertakings
- Co-operation within a community-wide group of undertakings and an undertaking
- Employee Involvement in European Companies (SE) and European Cooperative Societies (SCE)
- Personnel funds
- Key points of the Co-operation Act
- Collective agreements and mediation in labour disputes
- Contractor’s obligations and liability
- Employee’s position if employer becomes insolvent
- Working life development
- Integration of immigrants
- Employment
- Support and compensations
- Employment Bulletin and Employment Service Statistics
Co-operation within a Finnish group of undertakings
The provisions of the Act apply to a Finnish group of undertakings or an undertaking with various business premises, which has a total minimum of 500 employees in Finland.
The provisions apply to those undertakings within a group of undertakings, or administratively independent operational units operating in Finland, which have at least 20 employees.
If the group of undertakings consists of one or more groups of undertakings, the provisions of the Act only apply to the uppermost group of undertakings, unless the management and employees’ representatives of the latter otherwise agree on the arrangement of co-operation.
Agreement on co-operation
The management of a group of undertakings (management of the uppermost group of undertakings), or an undertaking with various business premises and the employees’ representatives, can freely agree on the co-operation contents and procedure.
An agreement on co-operation must always be made in writing. Such an agreement can be in force for a fixed-term or until further notice.
Statutory standard rules:
- apply where no agreement has been concluded on co-operation between the management and the employees
- are only applicable after 12 months from the commencement of the agreement negotiations and at the latest within 24 months from the date upon which the preconditions for application of the Act were fulfilled, unless co-operation has been agreed on earlier.
Further information: cooperation ombudsman