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Fri, 01 Apr, 2016 12:10:07 AM FTimes – STT Report, Apr 1  File Photo – Lehtikuva. The Ministry of Finance has taken an initiative to regulate the civil servants leaving certain jobs to become entrepreneurs or to work for other employers by law courtesy of a waiting period agreement.
According to the bill, the waiting period law would regulate the transition in situations where officials might take advantage of information obtained in relation to their post.
“The aim is to protect data and prevent its use for their own or others’ benefit,” said ministerial adviser Miska Lautiainen referring to the Ministry of Finance proposal.
The maximum waiting period proposed would be one year. During the waiting period, the official would be compensated an amount equal to his or her salary.
But public sector negotiating commission’s chief negotiator Markku Nieminen suspects that the waiting period agreement would be utilised rarely. He does not believe that compensation of up to a year would be justified without a particularly good reason.
According to him, the waiting period law would probably affect only the most high-ranking officials, for example an official on the board of a state-owned company joining a competing company.
Nieminen mentioned the situation where the state administration has shifted officials from the state to the mining company Talvivaara to become workers and back again to assume official posts.
According to Nieminen, the waiting period is likely to make the transfer of civil servants to other jobs difficult.
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