Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2020, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Finland (Ratification: 1951)

The Committee takes note of the Government’s report which includes observations made by the Federation of Finnish Enterprises, the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) and the Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees (STTK). The Committee notes that: (i) these observations refer to the general applicability of national or sectoral collective agreements; and (ii) the Federation of Finnish Enterprises alleges that the impossibility for employers who are not members of an employers’ association to deviate from such collective agreements through the conclusion of workplace-level agreements is contrary to the Convention. Taking note of the opposite views expressed by the social partners in this respect, the Committee requests the Government to provide its comments thereon.