🇫🇮 Finland’s committee backs HE 129/2026 and clarifies equal-value assessment

Finland’s Work Life and Equality Committee recommends adopting the core HE 129/2026 bills unchanged and clarifies the proposed method for identifying work of equal value. The bill still awaits plenary consideration and is not enacted.

TyVM 9/2026, completed on 22 October, recommends bills 1–4 unchanged and makes only a technical §64b numbering correction in bill 5. The majority says employers may use a collective-agreement-based or other method; statutory factors are examples rather than mandatory labels, weights may vary, and all factors must remain relevant, objective and gender-neutral. Two dissents seek broader changes or rejection but are not controlling.

Employers should continue preparing for the proposal’s 1 January 2027 start while treating it as draft. Document the collective-agreement or other evaluation method, test whether it adequately reflects job demands and preserve objective, gender-neutral factor and weighting decisions. Monitor both plenary readings, amendments, enactment and commencement.