Tue, 17 May, 2016 12:09:50 AM Tightening of job change criteria FTimes – STT Report, May 17  A man was going to the employment office in Helsinki. File Photo – Lehtikuva. The tightening of the terms of job alternation leave has caused a spike in people using alter-nation leave, reported Finnish language daily Savon Sanomat.
A significant number employees took advantage of the leave this year compared to last year, according to the newspaper that quoted sources at the Employment Office.
The highest peak was seen in March when 2448 employees began their leave. The number was 635 in the stipulated period of the previous year.
The job alternation leave conditions were tightened at the beginning of the year.
According to the old terms, the employees were free to apply for the leave by the end of last year, and the leave had to begin before the end of March.
“Many have harboured a plan to take alternation leave, and now there was a unique oppor-tunity to implement it,” the director of the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors (JHL) Pasi Koskinen told the newspaper.
Late last year the government announced that job alternation leave conditions were to become stringent at the turn of the year.
An employee may take job alternation when one has worked for a total of at least 20 years while the maximum duration of the leave will reduce to 180 calendar days.
Furthermore, the changes will result to job alternation leave being taken all at once, while in the past it was possible to divide the leave in several periods.
At the same time, higher compensation for employees with long working history will be scrapped and all employees will be eligible for job alternation compensation amounting to 70 per cent of unemployment benefit.
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