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HUS plans another round of pay cuts for employees

From Helsingin Sanomat · () Finnish

Translated from Finnish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Helsinki University Hospital said it plans to change the pay grades of 270 more employees, with some facing lower salaries.
  • HUS also plans to recover wages it says it paid in excess of the correct amount.
  • The changes form part of a wider social and healthcare sector pay reform that has already affected hundreds of nurses.

Helsinki University Hospital plans more salary reductions as it reviews pay grades across the organization. HUS said Thursday that the changes will affect 270 additional employees.

Some workers have received too much pay, while others have received too little, according to the hospital group. HUS intends to recover overpayments from employees, citing equal treatment of staff as the reason.

The dispute is linked to a broader pay reform covering Finland’s social and healthcare sector. The reform aims to bring salaries into closer alignment with employees’ duties. HUS has reviewed workers’ roles and salaries extensively in recent years and says its own investigation uncovered hundreds of cases it classifies as pay errors.

The review has already led to hundreds of nurses being moved from one pay grade to another. In 2024, HUS cut the salaries of hundreds of nurses. The trade union Tehy has taken HUS to court over the pay dispute, describing the changes as clear salary reductions.

Representatives of the affected staff will discuss the newly identified cases next week. HUS employs about 26,000 people.

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Originally published by Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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