Salaries and service relationships

In this section you will find basic information about the way Talentia protects its members' wage interests, about salaries in the social welfare field, and about terms of employment. Further information about wages and employment relationships can be found on the members' extranet (in Finnish only), which requires registration. The members' extranet includes information on e.g.

salaries:

• salary counter,
• Talentia's salary and remuneration recommendations,
• salary survey information,
• job evaluation information,
• grounds for pay adjustments,
• performance-related pay information

terms of employment:

• public-service and contractual employment relationships,
• trial period,
• working time,
• overtime,
• the cooperation procedure,
• lay-off,
• alteration of responsibilities in a public-service or contractual employment relationship,
• unilateral transfer to part-time,
• termination with notice,
• summary termination of a public-service or contractual employment relationship.

specific questions related to employment relationships:

• emergency social services and being on call,
• fixed-term employment contracts,
• summer jobs.

seeking employment:

• employment application,
• demonstrating possession of the required qualification,
• salary demand.

unemployment security:

• unemployment fund,
• daily unemployment allowance and condition regarding previous employment,
• daily unemployment allowance counter,
• adjusted unemployment allowance,
• redundancy protection,
• training allowance,
• job alternation leave.

In matters concerning the protection of wage interests, salaries, and terms of employment, the contact person at Talentia is, in the private sector, Bargaining director
Paula Tuomola
paula.tuomola@talentia.fi
09-3158 6040

In the public-service sector the contact person is Bargaining Manager
Antero Lahikainen
antero.lahikainen@talentia.fi
093158 6041

For members in south-eastern Finland, guidance in matters concerning terms of employment is offered by Hannele Sirrola, Regional Coordinator for South-Eastern Finland
hannele.sirrola@talentia.fi,
09-3158 6043