food agency has decided to suspend co-operation negotiations, the agency allocated an additional amount of money.

the Agency told the bulletin that the parliament approved on Wednesday a supplementary budget, which the agency is given a 3.3 million eur.

an additional amount to facilitate the food agency of the tight economic situation next year, so the agency’s five million savings need not be achieved.

food agency told me in October that it would start co-operation negotiations aim to balance the economy. Adjustment measures was provisionally estimated to cause up to 95 fte reduction necessary and not more than 15 persons on part-time of.

in Addition, the agency planned the whole staff layoffs of a specified period.

food agency recalls that the co-operation negotiations despite the interruption of the adjustment need is still there.

food the agency will continue the economic and operational adjustment. The parliamentary address by an additional amount of money to give the agency time to search for possibilities of increasing revenue and savings to achieve, the food agency’s director general Antti-Jussi Oikarinen said in the announcement.

food agency started its operations in 2019 at the beginning. The agency employs about a thousand employees. Agency staff working in twenty locations.

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