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Olli schrieb am 13.09.2006 18:16
T:mi oder KY, AY, OY

Union Wants to Examine Nokia Working Conditions
Published 15.09.2006, 10.32

The Union of Salaried Employees plans to intervene on the question of working conditions at Nokia in Finland.

Union President Antti Rinne told the newspaper Etelä-Suomen Sanomat that the organisation had received complaints about salaries and general working conditions.

Rinne claimed that the union had received reports of strange personnel practices that it wanted to discuss with Nokia management. According to the union leader, employees have difficulty raising complaints on their own.
He said that if a line worker or union shop steward raised such issues, there would be uproar within the company.

The Union of Salaried Employees is Finland's largest private sector employee representative organisation, with thousands of members employed by Nokia.

employees have difficulty raising complaints on their own

Glass Ceiling for Women Building University Careers
Published 16.10.2006, 18.47

Women trying to move ahead in the academic world are often striking a glass ceiling, according to the Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers.

Nearly half of all new doctorates are women, but their roles in higher research and official positions have remained low, reports the union.

Chair of the union, Antero Puhakka, stresses that universities don't have the resources to ignore the potential of women. He says universities must take advantage of women's know-how if they want to reach higher international standards.

One factor contributing to the problem, according to the union, is that women spend more time than men on activities outside research, for instance teaching. Such activities can hinder career progress because the scientific world mainly values publications.

Salary differences between the sexes are also clear. According to a survey by the union, men working at universities earned about 300 euros more than women two years ago.

sunny1011 schrieb am 13.09.2006 22:14
Erste Hilfe hier: http://www.dfhk.fi/deutsch/finnland/sub ... cht.htm#ag (auf der Seite der deutsch-finnischen Handelskammer, recht nützlich und sicher auch zuverlässig).

Education No Guarantee of Work For Immigrants
Published 13.12.2006, 09.24

Physicians are easily employed

Well educated foreigners find it very difficult to find jobs in Finland that take advantage of their training. Unemployment among immigrants is three times as high as among the general population.

Even though legal barriers to immigration and employment have fallen, real job opportunities for non-Finns often fade because of sufficient fluency in the Finnish language.

Around 100 000 foreigners reside permanently in Finland. Approximately one of three is unemployed. What even that grim statistic does not show is how many immigrants that do have jobs are employed at tasks below their level of education and skills.

The situation is brightest in technical fields, especially in information technologies, where the working language is often English. In most cases, however, immigrants get jobs in less skilled fields where there is the greatest need for labour.

For example, qualified physicians are easily employed and provided with training to adapt to local conditions because there is a lack of doctors in the country.

Labour Ministry Chief Inspector Olli Sorainen says that development of the job market for immigrants is moving in the wrong direction: they are being hired to fill immediate needs, rather than being allowed to show what they have to offer.

Viraston pääjohtaja valitaan ensi vuoden aikana. Unionin pelisääntöjen mukaan hän ei voi olla suomalainen, koska virasto sijaitsee Suomessa.

sunny1011 schrieb am 13.12.2006 23:05
D.h. der Leiter darf lt. EU kein Finne sein, denn das Amt ist in Finnland

sunny1011 schrieb am 13.12.2006 23:05
Desweiteren wollten sie Sonderzuschüsse, weil Helsinki so eine teure Stadt sei, vieeeel teurer als Brüssel ...

Number of immigrant-led enterprises doubles in Finland

The number of immigrant-owned enterprises has almost doubled in Finland since 2001. According to Statistics Finland and the Trade Register, Finland has around 5,600 enterprises established and led by immigrants.

Immigrants are also more willing to start a business than native-born Finns. The proportion of entrepreneurs out of the foreign job holders is 16 per cent, while the corresponding figure for the original population is only 10 per cent.
The information is based on a report submitted by a working group set up by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which was published in Helsinki on Wednesday.

The mandate of the governmental working group was to find out how the prerequisites for immigrant entrepreneurship could be promoted in Finland.
In its report the working group arrived at a set of 13 measures.
The chairman of the group, Jorma Immonen from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, reported that it is of the utmost importance to develop the general preconditions for foreign entrepreneurs and to continue the work that has already been started.

The most urgent actions would include the development of advice, education and financial services, he noted.
The report also pointed out that the image of foreigners as "pizza and kebab entrepreneurs" is outdated. Even though the majority of immigrant entrepreneurs are still working in the commerce and restaurant sector, some 11 per cent of the businesses provide "information-intensive" services. This percentage is the same for the businesses in this branch run by the original population.
"These services are largely gathered in the Greater Helsinki Area - immigrant-owned and Finnish-run businesses alike", reported member of the working group Tuula Joronen from the City of Helsinki Urban Facts.

Distinct differences exist between various nationalities in terms of entrepreneurship. The Turks are remarkably active at starting businesses, and the Asians in particular stand out as being eager entrepreneurs.
Until recently, the immigrants of Russian origin have not been very interested in becoming entrepreneurs, even though this large group is highly educated with great potential.
The report also stressed that some 700,000 to 800,000 employees will retire in Finland in the next couple of decades, and immigrants are needed to replace them.