Majority of all new work contracts atypical in Finland |
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central questions in the EU social Dialogue but also in the national debate in Finland
about the future of work and of trade unions. Some scholars interpreted this information as a sign of a new era in the labour market, were atypical jobs are the typical ones. This would inevitably lead to weakening of the trade unions, they said. But there is another picture too, if looking at the stock of all existing employee relationships. 76 per cent of all jobs are permanent full-time and only 24 per cent are atypical. And this proportion has been almost unchanged for some time. How comes? Because most atypical work contracts will eventually be changed into permanent ones. But these are not recognised as new employment contracts in the statistics! In an international comparison part-time work is less frequent in Finland than in most other EU countries, but fixed-term contracts are more common in Finland than in any other EU country except for Spain. These and other aspects of the Finnish economy, together with international comparisons, can be found in Finnish(4 times a year), Swedish (two times a year) from this fall also in English (at least once a year) in SAK:s reports "Economic Data" prepared by Terttu Laitala, the Statistics secretary of SAK. Hopefully this information can be made available on the web at a later stage, but now You have to order it from SAK. Peter J. Boldt |
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