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Information for persons applying for non-military service Applying for non-military service is done by filling in an application for non-military service. A person can apply for non-military service in or after call-up, during military service or ...

Employment security during military or non-military service An employee has the right to get leave from work for doing military or non-military service. A person called up for military or non-military service has the right to return to the same or...

Labour legislation Labour legislation (all Acts, see Further information) comprises such acts as the Employment Contracts Act, Working Time Act, Annual Holidays Act, Non-discrimination Act, Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life, Collect...

Protection of privacy at work and working with children Data protection in working life Employers can gather personal information on their employees for their own needs. However, the protection of privacy dictates that jobseekers and employees hav...

Employment contract and employment relationship Employee protection is the starting point for labour legislation. Because of this, labour legislation contains provisions that cannot be deviated from to the disadvantage of the employee. Employment ...

Statute drafting Drafting statutes is one of the most important tasks of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. The ministry’s remit includes employment, unemployment and public employment services, work environment issues, collective ag...

Security Strategy for Society On 16 January 2025, the Government adopted, as a resolution, the Security Strategy for Society prepared by the Security Committee. The purpose of the strategy is to provide a common concept for comprehensive security ...

24.2.2026 | Annual Holidays Act MEAE brochures • 3/2019 Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment Employment and Well-Functioning Markets Johanna Ylitepsa P.O. 32, 00023 FI-00023 GOVERNMENT Tel. +358 29 506 4207 www.tem.fi MEAE brochures 3/2019 Layout: MEAE...

21.10.2021 | The Government proposes an amendment to the Non-Military Service Act to clarify the status of persons who have refused non-military service and have received a sentence. Those who have been acquitted by a court would no longer be ordered back into service during peacetime.

25.4.2019 | Amendments to the Non-Military Service Act will permit the reapplication to the Finnish Defence Forces’ reserve personnel of those whose application for non-military service has already been approved, after the year during which the conscripts turn 28, provided they have not yet begun their supplementary service. The amendment will improve the equal treatment of different-aged persons liable to complete supplementary service.

17.11.2025 | 1(25) UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION Government Decision on the Objectives of Security of Supply Upon presentation by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, the Government has decided as follows under section 2, subsection 2 of the Act on the Me...

3.6.2025 | 1(45) REPORT made by the Government of Finland on Unratified Conventions and Recommendations (Article 19 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation) concerning the following instruments of the ILO: VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND E...