Finland: work and calendar

These are the ordinary statutory limits. Collective agreements may set shorter hours; shift arrangements distribute hours over a reference period.

Overtime counts towards an average limit of 48 hours a week, normally over four months. Rest rules apply separately; there is no single maximum for every type of shift.

At the end of the holiday credit year, service under one year gives the lower accrual rate; a year or more gives the higher rate. Usually Monday–Saturday use up leave; Sundays, public holidays and specially excluded days do not. Some sectors use a five-day system.

There is no national minimum wage. Sectoral collective agreements set minimum pay; otherwise pay must be customary and reasonable.

The tax card determines tax withholding. Pension and unemployment insurance contributions are charged additionally under the applicable conditions. No common deduction total can be given without a specified gross wage.

There is no national minimum wage from which to calculate a common net amount. A sector example is not substituted for it.

Employer sick pay depends on service and the agreement. Kela, Finland’s social security institution, may then pay an income-based sickness allowance. It is not automatically equal to full salary.

This is the Kela pregnancy-allowance period. Monday–Saturday count, excluding public holidays. If the employer continues salary payments, Kela pays the allowance to the employer.

The total parental allowance is 320 days, normally shared equally between the parents. Up to 63 days of one’s own quota can be transferred to the other parent, a parent’s partner or another guardian who cares for the child and is not working on those days.

Separate child-care leave may follow parental allowance. Leave, home-care allowance and salary are different entitlements; this is not three years of paid leave.

This guide has no verified common number of paid additional days for parents. This does not mean there is no entitlement or that the limit is zero. Leave to care for a sick child is a separate right; the sources below concern that right.

These are minimum earnings-related pension ages by birth year. Kela’s national pension for people with low pension income has separate conditions. The age at which pension insurance ends is different. Check the pension authority’s table for other birth years.