Details of HS|In terms of salary increases, the previous line will be continued to a certain extent. “The possible effects of the proposal are minor,” the justifications for the bill say.
The government the intention to legislate the wage standard is becoming diluted.
In the government’s preliminary bill seen by HS, the national mediator is not prohibited from accepting a solution that goes beyond the so-called general line agreed by the export companies.
The presentation seen by HS is dated May 28. The proposed law is intended to enter into force at the beginning of December 2024.
In government negotiations the government decided that the national conciliator’s office or the conciliation board cannot exceed the so-called general line of wage increases with their settlement proposal.
Linjaus is one of the reasons why strikes costing billions of euros were organized in Finland this spring.
The board’s decision would have meant that, for example, sectors in the wage pit would not necessarily receive higher salary increases than, for example, the negotiations between the Confederation of Industry and Technology have agreed for their contract sectors.
Exactly the presentation states that “in order to safeguard the national economy and other general interests, the mediator must conduct his mediation in such a way that wage formation works as well as possible and the functioning of the labor market is not jeopardized”.
In the justification of the bill, it is said that “however, this is a rather small change in the coordination of negotiations and the basic features of the system will remain unchanged after the change”.
“Consequently, the possible effects of the presentation are also minor,” the justifications say.
However, the draft law says that the proposal would strengthen the consideration of the general line of salary revisions in the mediation procedure at the legal level. “It’s about a principle that the mediators have followed in their mediation work in practice, even without an explicit rule,” the justification reads.
“Safeguarding the national economy and other general interests would mean that the mediator should, in his mediation work, pay attention to the fact that the carrying capacity and competitiveness of the national economy are not jeopardized by the solutions created in the mediation,” the justifications say.
Part those working in the labor market consider the bill so loose that it does not necessarily change the current salary structure in practice. However, it can cause disputes.
The parties can read the law in a different way and claim that the national mediator does not implement the law in his settlement proposal.
Safeguarding the national economy and the public interest can be interpreted in many ways. Wage increases can increase inflation and weaken the competitiveness of companies, but on the other hand, the increase increases purchasing power and thus stimulates the economy.
Planned in practice, the bill does not differ much from the current practice. The general practice is that the national conciliator has rarely given reconciliation proposals that deviate from the so-called general line.
In general, wages in almost all sectors in Finland have been increased by at most the same amount as in export sectors.
However, in the previous round of negotiations, wages in the public sector rose more than in the export sector.
Government has tried to get the parties to agree on Finland’s new salary formation method, but the Salary Association SAK has refused negotiations unless they also discuss other changes aimed at the government’s working life.
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