Finland
Centre-right President Niinistö and leaders of national employer organisations have been arguing for the need for pay cuts or increases in working time without compensation. Niinistö raised the issue in his new year message and called for a cut in his own salary. Employers have joined the debate with references to the long term trend to lower labour costs in Germany.
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(Press Communication, 9 October 2014) The EPSU Health and Social Services Committee, representing over 3.5 million health and social services workers across Europe sends its solidarity to the frontline workers
(June 2017) Details are emerging of the latest stage in negotiations between public sector unions and the government as they begin to unwind the austerity pay arrangements that saw pay cut and frozen and workers paying a pensions levy. The latest proposals are for a three-year deal running from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2020. There will be several pay increases over the period plus changes to the salary thresholds for the pensions levy. If agreed the deal would mean, for example, that a worker on EUR 30000 or less would be 7.4% better off by 2020.
