ARTICLE · 02 AUGUST 2024

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The Finnish Supreme Court has issued a preliminary ruling (SAC:2024:9) on the obligation to harmonize wages after a transfer of a business.

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Henry Alexander

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Equal pay and transfer of business

The Finnish Supreme Court has issued a preliminary ruling (SAC:2024:9) on the obligation to harmonize wages after a transfer of a business. A hospital district had paid different salaries to paramedics performing the same or equivalent work from 1 January 2014 to 16 August 2019, when the paramedics who had received higher salaries had joined it by transfer of business on 1 January 2014. As of 1 May 2014, the hospital district had switched to the municipal general collective agreement for all paramedics, whereby the pay per task of paramedics performing the same work was determined in a uniform manner and the differences in pay were due to the pay supplements paid to the higher-paid paramedics.

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