According to the Technology Industry Employers’ Association, the organization of companies has progressed so well that the future agreement can already be considered universally binding.
New Managing Director of the Technology Industry Employers’ Association Jarkko Ruohoniemi regrets that the Confederation of Industry, which represents the workers, does not yet see the conditions for starting negotiations on a new national collective agreement.
The current contracts expire at the end of November.
The Confederation of Finnish Industry reiterated on Monday its position that employers’ association is not yet “negotiable” because it does not have enough members and the association does not know which companies are involved.
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Ruohoniemi says in the association’s press release that the organization of the companies has progressed well.
“The future agreement could already be considered universally binding, taking into account the members admitted to the employers’ association and the pending applications.”
A collective agreement is considered to be universally binding when about half of the employees in the sector are covered by it, in which case non-organized companies must also comply with it.
According to Ruohoniemi, it is important that companies have a genuine discussion about the alternatives to the agreement, ie whether a company-specific collective agreement or joining the employers of the Technology Industry and thus a national collective agreement is a better option for the company.
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“I hope the aim of the Confederation of Finnish Industry is not to put pressure on companies to organize.”
Industry Association while he has stressed that the association should tell which companies are already involved.
“We don’t want to tell it because then there could be a temptation for companies to join because a neighboring company has also joined. Then it would not be a commitment to the association from the company’s own starting points, ”Ruohoniemi explains to HS.
“Hopefully the aim of the Confederation of Finnish Industry is not to put pressure on companies to organize. Freedom of association belongs to both employers and employees. ”
Ruohoniemi reminds that company-specific agreements are also created by agreement and the Confederation of Finnish Industries has announced that it will also be involved in these negotiations.
Trust According to the Confederation of Finnish Industry, has also weakened the issue of post-employment protection. It means that working conditions remain the same in a situation where the old contract is no longer valid but there is no new one.
According to Ruohoniemi, there is no legal protection afterwards, because this is a new association that is concluding a new agreement and not extending the old one.
“Of course, companies that joined an employers’ association could, for reasons of expediency, follow the old rules of the game. That could be the case if one day we were in a situation where there is no new agreement yet, ”Ruohoniemi reflects on the situation from the beginning of December.
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