- Enterprises
- Industrial policy
- Innovation policy
- Focus areas
- Regulation of business operations
- Internationalisation of enterprises
- Single market of the EU
- Business services
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- MEE Business Sector Services
- Enterprise financing
- Working life
- 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
- Labour legislation
- Energy
- Energy and climate strategy
- Electricity market
- Natural gas market
- Emissions trading
- Emissions Trading Directive
- Auctioning of emission allowances
- Emissions trading in aviation
- Free allocation of allowances during emissions trading period 2013-2020
- Aid for indirect emission costs
- Free allocation of allowances in 2021-2030
- Monitoring, reporting and verification
- Project-based mechanisms in the trading period 2013–2020
- Renewable energy
- Energy efficiency
- Energy Efficiency Directive and Energy Efficiency Act
- Nuclear energy
- Security of energy supply
- International and EU cooperation in the energy sector
- Energy technologies
- Competition and consumers
- Regions
- Objectives and planning of regional development
- Regional innovations and experimentations
- Urban development
- Structural change
- EU’s regional and structural policy
- ELY Centres
Working Life 2020 project (2013–2019)
The Working Life 2020 project was based on a working life development strategy completed in 2012. The strategy was devised in cooperation with the central labour market organisations. Its goal was to improve the employment rate, the quality of working life, well-being at work, and productivity, while its vision was to make working life in Finland the best in Europe by 2020.
The cooperation network in this project covered 80 organisations, including all central labour market organisations, and development bodies such as the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and the Centre for Occupational Safety. In addition, the project coordinated 15 regional networks built around the Centres for economic development, transport and the environment (ELY Centres). This network was complemented by sectoral programmes, in other words joint development projects of the employer and employee organisations. The majority of the project impacts were indirect and were generated through the activities of the developer network.
The project provided information, tools and peer support to workplaces
The network contributed to the emergence of content themes that induced discussions about new trends in working life. Cooperation also produced a Development Path test, which allows workplaces to identify their major strengths and weaknesses.
After project completion, other organisations in the network continued to pursue some of the themes, ensuring their continuity. The Development Path is now a free tool provided by the Centre for Occupational Safety. Business Finland will pursue the working life brand work as part of its Talent Boost programme.
The Working Life 2020 project also focused on communication and influencing by sharing best practices, tips and useful information. The development themes raised particularly towards the end of the project, such as leadership and trust in the workplace, were brought to public discussion.
In Finland, working life is subject to both national and international monitoring. The Working Life Barometer is an important source of information at the national level. Internationally, Finland’s working life is benchmarked against other European countries based on research by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
Further information:
Pirkko Jukka, pirkko.jukka(at)tem.fi