Changes To The Annual Holidays Act

The Finnish Parliament accepted on 3 April 2013 debated changes to the Annual Holidays Act. The most important changes concern postponing annual holiday in cases of illness and determination of annual holiday pay when the employee's working hours have changed and the employee is working on monthly or weekly salary. The changes shall come effective as of 1 October 2013 or until the expiry of the terms of current Collective Bargaining Agreements.

An employee who becomes ill during his/her statutory annual holiday shall in future have the right to request postponement of annual holiday as of the first day of illness. According to former rules, an employee had the same right only after the illness continued uninterruptedly more than seven days.