the competitiveness pact, the longer a woman’s regular working hours to about half an hour, but affected the little man, told reporters according to Statistics finland’s labour force survey senior statistician Pertti Taskinen in his blog Data & Trends web site (you move to another service).

the Women’s regular weekly working hours increased by almost half an hour in 2016 and 2017, while the men have not seen a significant change.

by Industry working hours grew in 2017, particularly in education and health and social services sectors, of which especially the latter is dominated by women. Also the public administration in weekly working hours rose.

in Manufacturing, construction and wholesale and retail trade the change has been small.

Regular weekly working hours in the main job in certain industries from 2015 to 2018, figures hours

2015

2016

2017

2018

the Industry

39,8

39,8

39,9

39,9

Construction

40,7

of 40.9

41,0

of 40.9

Wholesale and retail

38,9

39,0

to 39.1

39,0

Public administration and defence, compulsory social insurance

38,3

38,3

38,5

eur 38.7

Education

37,2

37,3

37,6

37,8

Health and social services

38,2

38,2

eur 38.7

38,9

Information is based on people themselves to provide notice of working hours in the labour force survey. Data refer to persons aged 15 to 74 years of age, permanently resident in Finland on the population and the main job.

Kiky-the contract is the summer of 2016 entered into a collective agreement, which was intended to improve Finland’s economic competitiveness and employment. It includes, inter alia, wage freeze, increased working time, holiday pay cuts and employers ‘ contributions reduction. The agreement was intended to extend the working time hours, but the effect was finally reduced to half an hour.

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