Collective agreements

Key agreements for Talentia members

The collective agreements that apply to most Talentia members are:

• The General Collective Agreement for Municipal Personnel,
• The Collective Agreement for Public Servants,
• Main Collective Agreement for the Church Sector,
• Collective Agreement for the Private Social Services Sector (generally binding),
• Collective Agreement for the Social Welfare Organisations Sector,
• Collective Agreement of the Employers' Association for Service Enterprises,
• Collective Agreement for the Private Health Services Sector.

The majority of Talentia's members are covered by the General Collective Agreement for Municipal Personnel.

Generally binding collective agreements

There are approximately 1.000 different collective agreements in Finland, out of which some 160 are generally binding. The generally binding nature of a collective agreement means that the employers covered by the agreement (i.e. affiliated to the employers' association that concluded the collective agreement) employ at least 50 % of all the employees in the sector. In addition, in order to be considered generally binding, a collective agreement has to be national (i.e. concluded at the sectoral level and intended to be applicable in the whole sector and not only in a single company).

In practice, the generally binding nature of a collective agreement means that even non-organised employers (i.e. employers who do not belong to an employers' association) are obliged to apply it. One example of a generally binding agreement is the Collective Agreement for the Private Social Services Sector. If an employer is non-organised and the sector is not covered by a generally binding collective agreement, the employer is nevertheless bound by laws and the employment contract concluded between the employer and the employee.

All collective agreements confirmed as generally binding can be found in the FINLEX Data Bank: http://www.finlex.fi

Member service in matters concerning collective agreements

Bargaining Manager Antero Lahikainen
tel. 09-3158 6041
(public sector)

Bargaining Director Paula Tuomola
tel. 09-3158 6040
(private sector)

Regional Coordinator Hannele Sirrola
tel. 09-3158 6043
(private and public sector, particularly south-eastern and eastern Finland)