Tag: Workplace
The owner of the restaurant was convicted of using illegal foreign labor
The employer is also obliged to keep a record of hired foreign workers and the basis of their right to work at the workplace. According to the district court, the employer who employed several foreign workers for a longer period of time and carried out official inspections was aware of the employer’s obligations and the…
Work accidents will decrease, but the number of accidents will increase in the construction industry in 2022
Last year, the accident frequency was 59.7 workplace accidents per million working hours in the construction industry. This rate had been falling for several years and reached a low of 55.1 in 2020, but then started to rise again. One of the factors influencing the increase in the frequency of accidents is the shortening of…
Danish in the workplace: Companies focus on social aspects
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Toxic workplace? Danish ministries are bleeding employees
Sounds more like the US!Responses included instances such as working long hours or being expected to work when sick or on parental leave. The Zetland figures appear to support these responses – the number of long-term sickness absence days was at its highest point in a decade. Several ministers were asked about the issue, but…
Union boss accused of inappropriate behaviour
A leading figure for yearsConsidered one of the most powerful women in Denmark, Risgaard has been at the head of FH since 2015 and was elected chairman of the organization as late as 2022. Before that, she was deputy chief from 2007-2015. Berlingske and Ekstra Bladet say that for years Risgaard has behaved inappropriately by…
Mental well-being challenges affect 40% of Nordic employees – Finland is different from other countries
Only 34 percent of Finnish respondents felt that mental health problems affect their ability to work, while the corresponding figure in Denmark was 49 percent. By Kristina Ström OlssonIf’s health strategy, it is difficult to assess whether the Finnish respondents’ perception of mental health challenges is different from that in other countries or whether the…
STTK’s research shows a positive change in attitudes towards immigration and foreign workers in Finland
The reason for the change in positive attitude is the increase in work-related immigration to Finland over the last four years, as well as an active social discussion on the topic. STTK believes that the need for international recruitment in Finland must be expanded, as the working-age population is estimated to decrease by 130,000 by…
Danish company abolishes children’s sick day limit
Your three-year-old woke up with an eye infection, but you managed to clear most of the dirt. Your five-year-old has a slight temperature, so there’s a chance he’ll come down with something, but he’ll definitely make it through the day—especially if you give him a pill. Working parents wake up to these kinds of dilemmas…
Childless employees face discrimination when planning vacations, says a study
In the study, approximately 570 voluntarily and involuntarily childless persons were interviewed in order to find out their experiences of workplace discrimination. It revealed that 60% of involuntarily childless respondents have experienced holiday and shift discrimination. A third of the respondents reported that they had experienced discrimination related to infertility or fertility treatments in the…
Most doctors are not aware of patient injury reporting processes in their workplace
According to PVK’s remuneration manager Elina Muukkonen, healthcare professionals do not need to know when a patient injury may be eligible for compensation. If the patient suspects damage, he can seek help from the healthcare patient advocate, and the reporting process removes the issue from the daily life of the patient and the healthcare unit.…
The language election machine opens to voters: Concern about the status of national languages
The platform also shows the differences between candidate and user responses. Users can also browse the candidates’ answers and their language policy promises without even answering the questions. The platform can be used in Finnish and Swedish at kielivaalikone.fi and valkompassomsprak.fi, respectively. The Kielivaalikone project is run by the non-partisan language advocacy group Oma kieli…
A new study shows that language skills and social relationships are key to the integration of immigrant early childhood educators in Finland
social relations at the workplace as well as the acceptance and recognition of the work community are directly related to how well early childhood educators with an immigrant background feel that they belong to the kindergarten’s work community. In Haanpää’s study, the views of early childhood educators with an immigrant background, as well as Finnish-born…
The unfair condition
– When we looked at the more manual occupations, the workers, we saw that more than half did not have good enough fitness to cope with their occupations, says Elin Ekblom Bak, lecturer in sports science at the School of Gymnastics and Sports, GIH. Together with her colleagues, she has done a study that addresses…
Bomb notifications sent to kindergartens and city hall
A bomb threat was sent to several institutions and workplaces in Reykjanesbær, including kindergartens, this morning. Due to the threat, the town hall in Reykjanesbær was evacuated. Police say there is nothing to fear, but the matter is being taken seriously. The threat report was received around 10 a.m. this morning. Until then, city hall…
Strikes in grocery stores and logistics centers were suspended after the trade agreement
Annika Rönni-SällinenPAM chairman, expressed his satisfaction with the outcome of the “complex and difficult” negotiations. “We managed to negotiate an agreement that we can be satisfied with. Our long-term goal of wage increases in euros was realized. The euro-denominated wage increases will especially benefit low-wage earners, he commented press release late last night. “The negotiations…
In the Immigration Office’s new strategy, the customer is in first place
The Finnish Immigration Service aims and comprehensively improves customers’ journeys in immigration together with other relevant organizations. The Finnish Immigration Service’s goals for the years 2023–2027 are: Our work is of high quality, our processes are smooth and efficient, and our methods of operation are predictable. Our customer experience is excellent. We constantly strive to…
A new campaign against sexual harassment in the workplace
Vinnueftirlitið, the Icelandic labor inspectorate, has created a new campaign against sexual harassment in the workplace, which aims to encourage action through prevention, education and targeted response when these types of problems occur. The project is entitled Tökum höndum saman, or Let’s hold hands, and the action is carried out in cooperation with organizations associating…
Jokeri Light Rail test runs start in Espoo – stops at metro and railway stations
In Leppävaara, you can easily get to the railway track and its future extension to the City Rail Link and the long-distance train network by express tram. Leppävaara is a commercially attractive area and thanks to the new light rail, its services are even easier to reach. In Otaniemi and Keilaniemi, the Jokeri tram stops…
Immigrants in Iceland
A team of researchers from the Department of Education and Multifacetedness at the University of Iceland is currently conducting research on negative physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, financial and other experiences in immigrant women’s partnerships, workplaces or other work-related settings. A research project on intimate partner and work violence is run by a group of immigrants…
Why it’s important to eat at work – even the odd cake
When England’s Food Standards Agency chief Susan Jebb recently compared eating cake at work to second-hand smoke, office cubicle walls trembled across the country. She told The times: Professor Jebb is right to criticize unstructured eating in the workplace, which can contribute to unhealthy eating. Overconsumption of unhealthy products such as cookies and processed foods…
80 percent have positive experiences of working with a person with a foreign background: STTK study
These are surprising results, as multicultural working life is often only talked about in public and conflicts are highlighted, ”says Taina VallanderDirector of STTK. On the other hand, people are more reserved and intimidated in strengthening multiculturalism in their workplace and in Finland in general. Vallander says that negative attitudes towards increasing the multiculturalism of…
Just say it like it is: Finding job satisfaction
With so many job seekers writing enthusiastically on LinkedIn to start a new role, does it always make me think about how others are doing? Rejoicing that some have found work but buzzing with disappointment that it is not them? The freeze is overI have always said that “Job search in Denmark as an international…
Research: Harassment dominates the Finnish music industry
As many as 76 percent of music workers have experienced inappropriate behavior in the workplace in the past five years. This is revealed by Yle’s research report, which is based on an online survey that examined harassment and gender inequality in the music sector. Of the approximately 1,000 respondents, mostly women and non-binary people –…
THL alleviates mask recommendation in Finland
People with symptoms are advised to stay at home until the symptoms go away. The decision is justified because the use of masks as an independent measure does not significantly prevent the spread of the virus in the current epidemiological situation. Halting the spread of a highly contagious variant of omicron would require restrictive measures…
Finland will end the general mask recommendation
The Department of Health and Welfare (THL) announced on Thursday that it was abandoning its general recommendation to use a face mask on the grounds that protective equipment would not significantly reduce the spread of the coronavirus. However, THL continues to recommend the use of a face mask in public transportation, public indoor, and Covid…
Writing history with jobs at Rambøll
Imagine a job where your inputs can help write history, make indelible impressions on people’s lives and shape the very landscapes we visit. Because at Rambøll, the largest consulting engineering group in the Nordic region, you are the very stones that built the Øresund Bridge and the Great Bridge Belt, which every year helps to…
Right now: How to simplify the travel deduction
Minister of Finance Mikael Damberg (S) presents a new travel deduction. The proposal for a changed travel deduction was submitted for consultation in 2021. Among other things, it was proposed that the new deduction should be distance-based instead of cost-based. “With the new model, it is the distance between the home and the workplace that…
A temporary change in the law on the vaccination status of workers has been submitted for comment
The government’s ministerial-level coronavirus working group has proposed that proposals for amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Act be sent for opinion. The temporary adjustments include a provision allowing employers to obtain and process information about an employee’s Covid vaccination or disease status. The proposal follows a trialogue with employers ‘and workers’ representatives. According…
Survey: More than 700,000 Finns are considering moving to another location in the near future
Comfort and quality of life, closeness to nature and safety are the main reasons for relocation plans, mentioned by 62%, 61% and 58% of respondents. Finns are also ready to move to another place because of job opportunities, and almost three-fifths of respondents consider job opportunities to be at least a relatively important reason for…
Will the end of corona pass lead to less reliable infection rates?
Let’s face it: the number of corona infections coming out of most countries is a joke. Testing is free in Denmark, and it has made many more people go to a center than in other countries, where testing typically costs between 200 and 500 kroner. Therefore, Denmark has largely been a leader in infection rates…