Skip to content
Trade Union JHL 2023
  • myJHL
  • Contact information
  • Unemployment fund
    • Suomi
    • Svenska
  • Join JHL
  • Contact information
  • Home
  • Latest news
    • Serious grounds – This is your time to take action
    • Collective agreement negotiations
  • At work
    • Working life questions
    • Occupational safety and health and well-being at work
  • Membership
    • Join JHL
    • Membership fee
    • Membership benefits
      • Holiday locations
    • What is the myJHL member service?
    • Unemployment fund
  • Get involved
    • JHL’s courses
    • 1001 occupations – occupational sectors
    • Youth and students
    • Immigrants
  • Branches and actives
    • Branch operations
    • Industrial action
      • Industrial action concepts
  • About JHL
    • Contact information
  1. Home
  2. Articles
  3. New terms and conditions of employment for municipal sector have been confirmed – first pay raises already in June

New terms and conditions of employment for municipal sector have been confirmed – first pay raises already in June

9.6.2022

On 8 June, Trade Union JHL’s approval confirmed the municipal sector’s terms and conditions of employment for 2022−2025. The terms and conditions of employment approved by JHL, Jyty, Juko and Local Government and County Employers KT apply to all municipal collective agreements, including the health and social services sector agreement (SOTE).

The decision made today by the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL to approve the municipal sector’s negotiation result means that the terms and conditions of public office and employment of approximately 300,000 employees will enter into force. The current labour peace applies to nearly 70% of municipal employees. The parties have now reached an agreement on all the municipal sector’s collective agreements.

In terms of content, the agreement solution is similar to the conciliation proposal given by the conciliation board. As a result of the approval, the new terms and conditions of employment apply to KVTES, SOTE agreement, collective agreement for technical personnel TS, and collective agreement for hourly-paid employees TTES. In addition, the new terms and conditions are applied to physicians’ collective agreement LS and teachers’ agreement OVTES.

– This solution breaks the so-called Finnish model where the industrial sector’s pay raises have held all other sectors as hostages. On the basis of the agreement, we can now start filling the municipal sector’s pay gap. We’re still some way off, but we’re on the right path, JHL President Päivi Niemi-Laine states.

The first pay raises will be paid during June of the current year.

– If the negotiations had been stretched to autumn, it would have meant a loss of pay raises for this year. Our members will now get a general raise of EUR 46 in June, albeit no less than 2 per cent. In a situation where inflation is running wild and prices are rising, it would have been irresponsible to continue arguing and worsening our members’ personal finances, JHL’s Bargaining Director Kristian Karrasch continues.

The pay raises in the agreement’s second and third year will be at least 1.9 per cent a year, regardless of what the export sectors and technology sector would agree on. If higher raises are agreed on in these sectors, also the municipal sector’s pay settlement will reflect the difference.

In addition to the three-year agreement, all municipal agreement sectors will get a five-year pay regime. It aims to improve workforce availability and to reform the pay systems so that they provide more incentives.

– In this agreement, our members are the ones who will get pay raises. However, it is likely that the raises will be paid to all municipal employees in the name of equality, Kristian Karrasch continues.

The collective agreements that have now been approved have been concluded between JHL, Jyty (negotiation organisation JAU), JUKO (an Akava member organisation) and employer organisation KT. The agreement will also give these main contracting organisations the right to negotiate on local agreements with the employers.

In case of another possible agreement solution, JAU (JHL and Jyty), JUKO and KT will evaluate its impacts and negotiate on possible further measures.

Because the agreement solution was confirmed, the ban on overtime and shift swaps that has applied to the municipal sector ended on 8 June at 12 am.

JHL’s website has more information about the content of the agreements (in Finnish).

More information

JHL’s President Päivi Niemi-Laine, 040 702 4772
JHL’s Bargaining Director Kristian Karrasch, 040 728 9046

You may also be interested in

  • As of 18 April, ban on overtime and shift swaps will continue until further notice in municipal sector 12.4.2022
  • Private social sector heading towards period without agreement – this week’s negotiations yielded no result 29.4.2022
  • Presenting Avainta’s three-year agreement 17.6.2022
  • Private social services sector finally has new terms and conditions of employment 30.6.2022
Skip latest articles

Latest articles

  • Political strikes will continue, Trade Union JHL is organising one-day industrial actions in Kanta- and Päijät-Häme and Helsinki on 28–29 November
  • JHL President Päivi Niemi-Laine resigns from her post, becomes director of public affairs
  • JHL will start an investigation on possibly detaching itself from the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK
  • Trade Union JHL to continue political strikes, one-day work stoppages in Central Finland, Uusimaa and Pirkanmaa on 21–23 November
  • Make sure your membership information is correct – You can only rely on the communications of your trade union during a strike
  • Trade Union JHL condemns all strikes targeting civilians

Share this page

  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on X
  • Share by E-mail
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • Share on Telegram

Join our strong group

Join JHL
Trade Union JHL 2023

Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL
Visiting address: Sörnäisten rantatie 23, 00500 HELSINKI
Postal address: P.O. Box 101 00531 HELSINKI

Contact information
Regional offices

Website content

  • Home
  • At work
  • Membership
  • Get involved
  • Branches and actives
  • About JHL

Quick links

  • Join JHL
  • Unemployment fund
  • Suomi
  • Svenska

Follow us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • TikTok

© 2023 Trade Union JHL 2023
  • Information about cookies