Trade Union JHL

09/06/2026

☀️ Do you work in hot weather?

The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health recommends 20-minute breaks on hot days. If the strenuous work continues after the break, breaks need to be longer.

🌞 The term hot work means working in a space where the ambient air temperature exceeds +28°C. Work in a hot environment is detrimental for the worker’s health and for safe working.

Trade Union JHL reminds that hot conditions are a major occupational safety issue. Preparing for hot weather needs to be discussed in advance.

04/06/2026

What should you do if an emergency warning instructs people to stay indoors? Stay indoors. 🛑🏠

But should your employer still pay you if you are absent from work because of the emergency warning?

Your trade union JHL's position on this is clear: Yes they should. Read the instructions that explain what you should do if you lost some of your pay because of the drone threat.💸

Trade Union JHL emphasises that employees have to get their pay if they cannot go to work because an emergency warning forbids going to the workplace.

03/06/2026

The Union Council is Trade Union JHL’s highest decision-making body. The term of the current Union Council is approaching its end.

Do you want to participate in deciding what your trade union should focus on? Nomination of candidates for the Union Council elections will open in October 2026.

Nomination of candidates for JHL’s Union Council elections starts in Oct 2026. In the Union Council you can participate in deciding what JHL should focus on.

03/06/2026

💎 Members of Trade Union JHL have new special offers on accommodation and services at Santa Claus Holiday Village in Rovaniemi.

💎 The holiday village has in total 173 hotel-standard cottages and suites, a full-service safari house, four restaurants, three gift shops and Santa’s office.

💎 JHL members' special offers at Santa Claus Holiday Village apply until 31 October 2026.

Trade Union JHL’s extensive membership benefits now include special offers at Santa Claus Holiday Village in Rovaniemi.

30/05/2026

🌺JHL congratulates warmly all newly graduated professionals and high school graduates!

🧡 Trade Union JHL is your companion at every stage of your working life.

⭐ If you're already a student member of JHL, your student membership will change into ordinary membership after the graduation day that you have reported to us.

💌 After graduation, you will receive a letter that contains information about graduating and JHL membership. When you become an ordinary member, you need to pay the membership fee or notify JHL of a reason that exempts you from paying the fee in order to keep your membership active.

☝️ And remember: If you're not a member of the unemployment fund yet, join it at the latest when you graduate and start working!

28/05/2026

Get updates from JHL’s Union Council meeting by liking this post!

The regular spring meeting of JHL’s Union Council starts today at 10 am. The two-day meeting takes place in Clarion Hotel Helsinki.

In the meeting the council processes for example the union’s annual report and financial statements for 2025, initiatives put forward for the spring meeting, as well as changes in the composition of the administration.

News from the meeting will be published in the comments of this post. You can also follow the meeting news at jhl.fi and on JHL’s social media channels. We will share highlights from the meeting in Finnish in stories on Instagram and Facebook.

The Union Council is JHL’s highest decision-making body and consists of 120 elected members.

Welcome to follow the meeting!

26/05/2026

🧑‍🍳 Today we thank catering sector professionals.

We celebrate today for the second time Thank a Catering Sector Professional Day. The day is organised by Trade Union JHL. The purpose of the day is to draw attention to catering sector professionals’ work and thank them for smooth running of everyday operations, their skilled work, and their important contribution to society.

👩‍🍳 Catering sector professionals hope for concrete improvements in their daily work. Work clothes and work shoes are essential for occupational safety, hygiene and well-being at work. It is not reasonable that low-paid employees have to buy these at their own cost.

For many young people, the school lunch is the only hot meal in the day. However, more and more adolescents don’t eat it at all. That is why it’s important to listen to the young people, develop the services and highlight the significance of school meals for well-being.

👎 A proposed new in-house law raises concerns in food services. The change in legislation would limit municipalities’ ability to organise food services flexibly and cost-efficiently. Especially small municipalities could end up in difficulties.

🧡 Thanking can be a word, a smile, or a shared coffee break. Appreciation can also be expressed through actions in everyday work: listening to what the employees have to say and providing good working conditions.

Have you already thanked the catering sector professional of your neighbourhood cafe or lunch restaurant?

Read more about the day's themes on Trade Union JHL's blog: https://www.jhl.fi/en/blog/2026/05/26/work-in-the-catering-sector-requires-competence-commitment-and-caring/

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The picture shows JHL member, cook Kirsi Mäkynen in Kurikka.
Photo by Krista Luoma.

22/05/2026

Employees must get their pay when the authorities tell them to stay at home in the event of a drone threat.

Legislation needs to be changed urgently in Finland so that employees can feel financially secure in exceptional situations. JHL will start negotiations with employer associations as soon as possible about how the obligation to pay salaries and wages in exceptional situations should be determined.

JHL will start negotiations with employer associations about how the obligation to pay salaries and wages in exceptional situations should be determined.

22/05/2026

🧡 Care assistants are the backbone of care services. They ensure well functioning services by enabling other care sector professionals to focus on their strongest areas.

Few people realise how versatile skills their work requires.

🧡 90% of care assistants work in the public sector with older people. Care assistants provide support in day-to-day life of older people, people with disabilities and others who need assistance. Care assistants make sure that clients have clean clothes on and that they have eaten on time.

A care assistant does not have a clear job description like that of a nurse or an institutional cleaner. In practice, care assistants do all kinds of care work except for medical care. Many start care sector work as care assistants and continue to study further.

⭐ Today, 22 May, is care assistants’ theme day. This theme day was started by JHL in 2025 because we want to highlight the significance of care assistants’ work.

JHL is the trade union for care assistants! We support our members through the turns of their working life and develop the world of work for the better. When you are a member of JHL, you are not alone – you are part of a professional community.

➡️ Discover JHL’s benefits and join!

✨P.S. Recommend membership to your co-workers as well. When you refer new members to JHL, you can earn member recruiter bonus points and exchange them for nice products and gift cards!

💯 We offer extra bonus points from new fee-paying members until the end of July! Any JHL member can be a member recruiter, and it’s quite easy! Read more:
Earn extra member recruiter bonus points - Trade Union JHL
jhl.fi/en/bonus

21/05/2026

A group of active members of Trade Union JHL has requested JHL’s Chief Executive Officer Mari Keturi to run for the office of the President of the union, and she has said yes.

The President of JHL will be elected in June 2027.

The President of the union will be elected in June 2027. Keturi has been a Chief Executive Officer of JHL since 2024.