Working life

Finnish Energy promotes a healthy working life. Our aim is to promote productivity, increase local agreements, support labour supply and promote a safe and equal working life.

The task of Finnish Energy’s labour market advocacy is to ensure that our member companies have sufficient quantitative and qualitative workforce resources now and in the future. Labour costs and workforce availability must support the profitability and competitiveness of companies.

Our aim is to improve productivity through flexible and appropriate working time arrangements and to ensure the competitiveness of unit labor costs. Additionally, we strive to increase and promote local agreements, support workforce availability, influence education in the sector, and promote a safe and equitable working life.

Our collective agreements apply to various businesses and tasks, such as:

Production of electricity, gas, district heating, and district cooling
Transmission, distribution, and sales of electricity, gas, district heating, and district cooling
Construction and maintenance of energy and ICT networks, as well as power plants; some network construction companies are members of the Service Sector Employers Palta
Production and sales of energy-related services
Water supply business

Approximately 16,000 people are employed by our member companies, with around 14,000 of them falling under our labor market advocacy.

We negotiate competitive collective agreements and wage solutions

It is important to us that the working conditions and wage solutions in the industry support the operational capabilities of companies. In addition to competitive working conditions, our collective agreements include opportunities for local agreements and encourage the development of new operating models. Companies should be able to decide on company-specific wage development based on productivity growth at the local level.

Adapting working life to increasingly rapid changes in operating methods and business environments requires new and innovative solutions also from collective bargaining. Our goal is to continue negotiating new flexible procedures within the framework of national collective agreements that benefit both employers and employees. Wage solutions must support the competitiveness of our member companies as domestic and international competition increases. Competition must be fair and just, with all parties adhering to collective agreements and other rules of working life.