Changes to the employment contract

The termination of employment may be initiated either by the employer or employee. You will find information on employee cooperation negotiations, dismissals, layoffs, and alternatives to them at Job Market Finland.

• Alternatives to lay-offs and dismissals

  If your company’s financial situation has deteriorated, laying off employees or ending their employment may be the first solutions that come to mind. However, you should familiarise yourself with the different options, especially when a difficult situation only seems temporary.

• Change negotiations 

  Change negotiations are joint activities between the employer and the personnel, the aim of which is to ensure the employees' possibilities of influencing their working conditions.

• Change security for the employer

  If you need to dismiss employees for production-related and financial reasons, familiarise yourself with change security. Change security helps both the employer and the employee who is to be dismissed.

• Lay-offs from the employer's perspective

  If the organisation of your employees' working hours or additional training does not solve your company's difficult situation, you can avoid dismissals with lay-offs. In this case, the employee's work and payment of salary will end, but the employment relationship will continue.

• Dismissal and termination of employment relationship as an employer

  You can only dismiss your permanent employee for a justified reason. Dismissal of an employee in a fixed-term employment relationship is only possible if it has been agreed upon separately. If your employee has violated their obligations very seriously, you can terminate the employment relationship. After the dismissal, you also have obligations regarding the offer of work and the reinstatement of the employee.

• Employee retirement

  When your employee retires, your employment relationship ends. Read what you should remember as an employer before the retirement of an employee.

Updated: 2.6.2023