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Pauli Vahtera criticized the Engineer Association and Business Professionals for wanting to extend annual leave by a week by removing Saturdays from vacation days. According to him, in the private sector, annual leave accrued to 30 days including Saturdays, which effectively amounts to five weeks, while in the public sector, the majority of employees received 38 days of leave without Saturdays. Vahtera compared this to a two-month vacation if two sick days were included. Vahtera disputed the claims of union leaders that a longer vacation would reduce absenteeism. He wrote that in the public sector, there were more sick days than in the private sector, and absences totaled three months. According to him, absences increased the need for substitutes, and one in four employees was continuously absent in the public sector. Vahtera stated that he had written about public sector vacations for Iltalehti back in 2010 and estimated that standardizing vacations with the private sector would free up 40,000 employees from the public sector to alleviate labor shortages. #työelämä #lomat #yksityissektori (translated)

Jiri Keronen wrote that one of the main reasons for immigration was, in his view, to obtain easily exploitable labor, which could be used to weaken wages and working conditions. He claimed that the costs of the problems were borne by society, which is why they did not need to be taken into consideration. #maahanmuutto #työelämä #palkat (translated)

Mats Uotila mentioned that he watched a panel where the chairman of the Green Youth supported a four-day work week. According to Uotila, the organization was working in its own office five days a week, and he assessed that this weakened the credibility of the matter. #Vihreät #Työelämä #NelipäiväinenTyöviikko (translated)

Samuli Katainen stated that he started working at the age of 15, but he had only started accumulating retirement benefits from the age of 23. According to him, after eight years of work and paid pension contributions, he had accumulated zero euros in his own pension. Katainen said that his working career would not continue until the proposed retirement age of 70. #eläke #työelämä #nuoret (translated)

The cap wondered why those advocating for raising the retirement age were often around 70 years old and working in office jobs, rather than those in physical labor. He asked if filsdeproust had any suggestions on how to take care of one's health to be able to do physical shift work at the age of 70. #eläke #terveys #työelämä (translated)

Leena Pihanurmi wrote that cleaners, firefighters, paramedics, nursing assistants, sports instructors, butchers, garbage truck drivers, lumberjacks, and bricklayers should take care of their health so that they can work until the age of 70. She sarcastically added that at the age of 60 one could retrain if their current job became too heavy, and claimed that employers want to hire worn-out elderly workers. #työelämä #ura #terveys (translated)

Indeed, it is quite a shock for middle-aged people today and those younger than them. It is important to understand that not everyone has the health to work until the age of 70, not at all, and not everyone has the stamina for it. Some may manage, though. The leader of the Center Party, Antti Kaikkonen, stated that his party opposes a systematic increase of the retirement age to 70 years. #eläke #muistisairaudet #politiikka (translated)

The Ministry of Finance proposes a gradual increase of the retirement age to 70, which could increase the number of employed individuals, but at the same time, the ministry intends to cut home care support and reduce the number of municipalities and welfare regions. #Eläke #Työelämä #Politiikka (translated)

Kim Väisänen wrote that the retirement age limit was lowered in 2005 from 65 to 63 years. He claimed that the large age cohorts did not want to continue in working life and therefore retired earlier. According to Väisänen, young people were not given the same opportunity, but their situation was the opposite. https://t.co/AAaasQpv7t #eläke #työmarkkinat #nuoret (translated)