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28.5.2026 | A fixed-term employment contract may be concluded without a justified reason in cases concerning the first employment relationship between an employer and an employee or if at least five years have elapsed since the previous employment relationship between them. A fixed-term employment relationship could be concluded for a maximum of one year without a justified reason.https://tem.fi/en/-/legislative-changes-to-make-fixed-term-employment-contracts-more-flexible-to-enter-into-force-on-1-june-2026
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11.5.2026 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is requesting comments on a proposal to create a new task for the employment authorities. The draft proposal will be circulated for comments from 11 May to 12 June 2026. It partly implements the entry of the Programme of Prime Minister Orpo’s Government concerning rehabilitative work. The aim is to launch activities for persons who have been unemplo...https://tem.fi/en/-/consultation-round-begins-on-new-tool-to-improve-employment-conditions-of-long-term-unemployed-people
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28.1.2026 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment requests comments between 28 January and 12 March 2026 on proposed legislative amendments concerning board‑level employee representation and the timing of carried‑over holiday. The amendments follow the Government’s decisions at the mid‑term policy review session in spring 2025.https://tem.fi/en/-/legislative-amendments-on-board-level-employee-representation-and-carried-over-holiday-sent-out-for-comments
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22.12.2025 | As of 1 January 2026, an employment relationship may be terminated on less weightier grounds if the employee violates the obligations arising from the employment relationship. Whether sufficient grounds for dismissal exist will continue to be based on a comprehensive consideration, and dismissal may not take place for a minor or discriminatory reason.https://tem.fi/en/-/lower-threshold-for-dismissal-if-employee-breaches-obligations
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15.1.2026 | Under the proposal, a fixed-term employment contract could be concluded without a justified reason for a maximum of one year if certain conditions are met. The Government also proposes to shorten the notice period for lay-offs and to limit the employer’s obligation to re-employ dismissed employees. The proposal for the amendments was submitted to Parliament on 15 January 2026.https://tem.fi/en/-/government-proposes-more-flexibility-for-fixed-term-employment-contracts
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23.10.2025 | According to the government proposal, employers would be able terminate an employment contract where a proper reason exists. To determine whether proper reasons for dismissal exist, comprehensive consideration would still be used as a basis for assessment.https://tem.fi/en/-/government-proposal-submitted-to-parliament-on-lower-dismissal-threshold
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1.7.2025 | The amendments to the Act on Co-operation within Undertakings (Co-operation Act) will enter into force on 1 July 2025. The aim is to reduce the administrative burden caused by the current legislation, especially in companies with fewer than 50 employees. Another objective is to speed up the ability of all companies to react to changes in the operating environment.https://tem.fi/en/-/legislative-amendments-enter-into-force-higher-threshold-for-applying-the-co-operation-act-and-shorter-duration-of-change-negotiations
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22.5.2025 | The amendments to the Act on Co-operation within Undertakings (Co-operation Act) will raise the application threshold of the Act and shorten the duration of change negotiations. The Government proposes that the President of the Republic approve the legislative amendments at the presidential session on 23 May 2025. The amendments would enter into force on 1 July 2025.https://tem.fi/en/-/government-to-reduce-administrative-burden-on-small-companies-changes-to-co-operation-act-to-take-effect-on-1-july-2025
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12.6.2025 | The legislation aims to ensure the continuity of society’s critical functions during industrial action if the parties cannot by negotiation reach an agreement on the provision of essential work during the action. The Government proposes that the President of the Republic approve the legislative amendments on 13 June 2025. The amendments would come into force on 16 June 2025.https://tem.fi/en/-/legislation-on-ensuring-essential-work-during-industrial-action-to-enter-into-force-on-16-june-2025
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2.6.2025 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is organising a consultation round from 2 June to 28 July 2025 on legislative amendments to the grounds for fixed-term employment contracts, the duration of the notice period for layoffs and the re-employment obligation of employers. The proposed amendments have been prepared in a tripartite working group that was not unanimous in its work.https://tem.fi/en/-/consultation-round-begins-on-changes-to-fixed-term-employment-contracts-notice-period-of-layoffs-and-re-employment-obligation
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9.5.2025 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment will organise a consultation round on amending the unemployment security sanctions from 9 May to 19 June 2025. The aim is to clarify and simplify the sanctions and to make the job search of jobseekers and their participation in employment-promoting services more efficient. Another objective is to prevent prolonged unemployment and to shorten periods of unemployment.https://tem.fi/en/-/consultation-round-on-amending-unemployment-security-sanctions-begins
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1.4.2025 | On 1 April 2025, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment published a discussion paper of a tripartite working group examining the possible need to amend board-level representation of employees, as outlined in a report by rapporteur Jukka Ahtela. The Government will assess the need for amendments in its mid-term policy review session in spring 2025.https://tem.fi/en/-/working-group-s-paper-on-the-report-on-board-level-employee-representation-has-been-completed
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21.5.2025 | On 20 May 2025, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment appointed three working groups to prepare the measures agreed by the Government in its mid-term policy review session in spring 2025. The working groups will prepare measures concerning the board-level employee representation, the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life, and the time for taking carried-over holiday entitlement.https://tem.fi/en/-/tripartite-working-groups-to-prepare-the-government-s-labour-market-reforms-outlined-in-the-mid-term-policy-review-session
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25.2.2025 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health have launched a national project on the Working Life Development Strategy with the aim of increasing labour productivity and improving wellbeing at work.https://tem.fi/en/-/work-on-the-working-life-development-strategy-begins-towards-a-good-and-productive-working-life-of-2035
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22.9.2025 | The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has today published three memorandums assessing the combined impacts of the Government’s changes to social security during this parliamentary term. The memorandums focus particularly on the impacts of the comprehensive reform of social assistance.https://tem.fi/en/-/1271139/memorandums-assessing-combined-impacts-of-government-s-social-security-changes-now-published
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19.12.2024 | On 19 December 2024, the President of the Republic approved the amendments to the legislation concerning the conciliation system. The amendments will enter into force on 1 January 2025.https://tem.fi/en/-/amendments-to-the-conciliation-system-to-enter-into-force-on-1-january-2025
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13.3.2025 | On 13 March 2025, the Government submitted to Parliament its proposal that aims to ensure essential work is performed during industrial action. The legislative project is based on a resolution issued by Parliament in 2022, the implementation of which is included in the Programme of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s Government.https://tem.fi/en/-/government-submits-to-parliament-its-proposal-on-ensuring-essential-work-during-industrial-action
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24.2.2025 | According to the Government Programme, the regulation concerning the grounds for terminating employment related to the employee will be amended so that, in future, a proper reason would be sufficient for terminating an employment contract. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment requests comments on the legislative amendments to be submitted between 24 February and 7 April 2025. The amendments have been prepared in a tripartite working group that was not unanimous in its work.https://tem.fi/en/-/consultation-round-on-amendments-to-grounds-for-terminating-employment-relationships-begins
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3.10.2024 | The reform would strengthen the consideration of the overall benefit of the national economy and the functioning of wage formation in the conciliation procedure. The Government submitted its proposal to Parliament on 3 October 2024.https://tem.fi/en/-/government-sends-its-proposal-on-developing-the-conciliation-system-to-parliament
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21.1.2025 | A report on the possible need to make amendments to board-level employee representation was submitted by rapporteur Jukka Ahtela (Master of Laws, Trained on the Bench) to Minister of Employment Arto Satonen on 21 January 2025. The report will now be discussed by a tripartite working group. The Government will assess the need for amendments in its mid-term policy review session in spring 2025.https://tem.fi/en/-/rapporteur-has-evaluated-the-need-to-amend-board-level-employee-representation