[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:work\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Ffinland-disputed-shop-assistants-pay-for-language-skills-within-reach-august-28-2014":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":9,"path":10,"content_type":11,"locale":12,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":13,"page_created_at":14,"published_at":13,"edit_url":15,"breadcrumbs":16,"seo":29,"body_blocks":37,"call_to_action":43,"categories":50,"labels":51,"owner":7,"authors":52,"related_pages":53,"related_sites":54,"in_subsite":55,"contact_page_url":56,"banner_message":57},8903,"finland-disputed-shop-assistants-pay-for-language-skills-within-reach-august-28-2014","Finland -Disputed shop assistants pay for language skills within reach -August 28, 2014",null,"Based on the collective agreement for the commercial sector shop assistants are entitled to a 5% pay supplement when they use more than one language ‘almost daily’ in the course of their normal daily customer service.","","\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Ffinland-disputed-shop-assistants-pay-for-language-skills-within-reach-august-28-2014","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2025-12-15T15:14:37.993436+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F8903\u002Fedit\u002F",[17,20,23,26,28],{"title":18,"slug":19},"World of Work","work",{"title":21,"slug":22},"Collective Bargaining Agreement","collective-bargaining-agreement",{"title":24,"slug":25},"Collective Bargaining Updates","updates",{"title":27,"slug":27},"2014",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":30,"canonical":31,"robots":32,"og_type":33,"twitter_card":34,"locale":12,"created_at":35,"last_modified_at":36},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Ffinland-disputed-shop-assistants-pay-for-language-skills-within-reach-august-28-2014\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2025-12-26T22:08:10.132356+01:00",[38],{"type":39,"data":40},"raw_html_block",{"content":41,"variant":42},"\u003Cp>Based on the collective agreement for the commercial sector shop assistants are entitled to a 5% pay supplement when they use more than one language ‘almost daily’ in the course of their normal daily customer service. This wording has been subject to a dispute since it was agreed in 1975. After a ruling of the labour court the long struggle is beginning to bear fruit. Seppälä, one of the major clothing shops, is to start paying the supplement, as stipulated in the collective agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>English: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fheikkijokinen.info\u002Fen\u002Ftrade-union-news-from-finland\u002F588-labour-court-the-language-skills-supplement-for-shop-assistants-must-be-paid\">http:\u002F\u002Fheikkijokinen.info\u002Fen\u002Ftrade-union-news-from-finland\u002F588-labour-court ... \u003C\u002Fa>   \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\"discreet\">For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003Ca href=\"mailto:cbn-aias@uva.nl\">cbn-aias@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa> or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mnikolova@etui.org\">mnikolova@etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>. For previous issues of the \u003Ci>Collective bargaining newsletter\u003C\u002Fi> please visit \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002FE-Newsletters\u002FCollective-bargaining-newsletter\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002FE-Newsletters\u002FCollective-bargaining-newsletter\u003C\u002Fa>. You may find further information on the ETUI at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002F\">www.etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>, and on the AIAS at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva-aias.net\u002F\">www.uva-aias.net\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>","light",{"text":44,"link":45},"Contact us",{"title":44,"url":46,"description":44,"rel":47,"type":48,"id":49},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]