Workers and employers organisations have joined forces to demand changes to the government s coronavirus vaccination policies.
Over the Christmas period the Ministry for Social Affairs and Health published a paper outlining policies surrounding the vaccine rollout, but the labour market organisations now say there are significant practical problems with the proposal.
The blue collar trade union confederation SAK, its white collar equivalent STTK, the confederation for professional unions Akava and the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK all want to see costs associated with vaccines delivered by occupational health services reimbursed in full by the taxpayer.
In the current proposal 60 percent of costs will be reimbursed. Most people working in Finland have access to occupational health services from their employer, either through in-house staff or a private contractor.