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Amendments to Annual Holidays Act on 1 April 2016

07.04.2016

The amendments to Annual Holidays Act entering into force in the beginning of April limit the accumulation of annual holidays during parental leaves and restrict employees’ right to postpone their holiday due to illness or incapacity to work.

During maternity, paternity or parental leave, annual holidays will in the future only be accumulated during a period of six months. Currently holidays are accumulated during the whole leave. Moreover, employees will have the right to postpone their holiday due to incapacity to work only after a six days’ waiting period, whereas currently there is no such waiting period. However, employees that have earned full annual holidays are in any case entitled to at least four weeks’ annual holidays.

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07.04.2016

Planning Restructuring of Company’s Operations – Have Employment Law Aspects Been Taken into Account?

When a company is planning to restructure its operations, attention should also be paid to Finnish employment law aspects. Arrangements like restructuring, sale or purchase of a business or a part thereof, closing an office or moving operations to retail dealers or subcontractors, may have personnel effects that must be considered from an employment law perspective.

08.03.2016

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield taking form

On 29 February 2016, the European Commission issued the legal texts that will put in place the so called EU-U.S. Privacy Shield replacing the previously repealed Safe Harbor framework and enabling transatlantic data flows.

03.03.2016

Land use agreements in real estate development

Attorney at Law Leea Salminen spoke about land use agreements in real estate development in a morning seminar arranged on 2 March 2016 by the Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce and the Finnish Bar Association's expert group on environmental law.

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