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Health / Social Work Human Health Services And Activities Human Health Activities 86.10 - Hospital Activities
778 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 September 2024
Employment effect (start)
28 November 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) has announced that it will cut equivalent to 778 full time positions (person years) following the completion of a collective consultation process. Around 28,000 people were within the scope of the collective consultation process.
A total of 280 employees will be made redundant. The rest of the reductions consist mainly of non-renewals of fixed-term employment contracts and retirement arrangements. The redundancies will primarily affect roles in administration, support services and management, although there will be a 2.4% decrease in the number of nursing staff and 0.6% of doctors.
Members of HUS' extended executive group will be furloughed for a period of two weeks in 2025. Other members of HUS management will be furloughed for one week.
The board of HUS has implemented a large saving programme, of which the dismissals is a part of.
The trade union for health care professionals Tehy has said that they will challenge the collective consultation procedure. The Negotiation Organisation for Public Sector Professionals JUKO and the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL, representing employee groups facing the most significant number of dismissals, have expressed concern as there is no reduction in the de facto tasks to be performed, just in the number of people performing them.
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