About this website
This website is published by the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK). SAK is the largest labour confederation in Finland.
On this website you can study The ABC guide to working in Finland – because understanding the ground rules of working life can help you avoid many problems.
When you want to inform your friends for example about this website, you may use the address FairPlayAtWork.fi, which directs to the main page of English version of this website.
This new service is part of SAK´s Employee Counselling. We provide also The SAK employee rights hotline – which advises young employees and employees of foreign origin with questions or problems concerning their employment. This free service is open to all and does not require trade union membership.
Details of the service
Consult the Fair Play at Work service for reliable information about your rights and duties in the world of work. We seek to prevent exploitation at work by providing low-threshold employment counselling. The content on this service reflects comprehensive expertise in work life issues and collaboration with a broad network of specialists. The service development project was subsidised by the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in 2021-2022.
Details of the world of work in 26 languages
The fairplayatwork.fi website provides basic information on working in Finland in an exceptionally broad range of languages. The comprehensive ABC guide to working in Finland describes the general rules of the working world in English, Finnish, Russian, Swedish and Ukrainian. Basic background information on working in Finland is also available in 21 other languages.

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