- Labour legislation
- Employment contract and employment relationship
- Working hours 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
Non-military service
A person can apply for non-military service for reasons of conscience based on conviction. Non-military service is a substitute for military service.
Non-military service lasts for 347 days and comprises a basic training period of 28 days and the work service lasting about 10.5 months. The work service is carried out at service locations approved by the Centre for Non-Military Service of which there are about 2,000 in different parts of Finland. There is no obligation to do refresher training.
The benefits of the persons liable for non-military service are determined according to the same criteria as those if conscripts. During the training period, maintenance costs (daily allowances, food, accommodation, healthcare and travel) are the responsibility of the Centre for Non-Military Service, while during the work service they are the responsibility of the service location arranging the work service.
The Centre for Non-Military Service is responsible for implementing non-military service, organising the training of the persons liable for non-military service and for guiding the service locations. The Centre for Non-Military Service, which is located at Lapinjärvi, is a separate unit of the KEHA-keskus.
The Centre for Non-Military Service provides general advice on non-military service.
See also employment security during military or non-military service and MEAE:s advisory board on non-military service (in Finnish)
Publications
Law-drafting: Satu Ylikorpi, satu.ylikorpi(at)tem.fi