KWH Pipe applies the "Danish" 3+1 working hour model

Benefits for both employer and employees

(Helsinki 12.03.2002 - Juhani Artto) At the end of last year a historic agreement was signed at KWH Pipe in the western Finnish City of Vaasa. The agreement applies arrangements known as the Danish 3+1 working hour model for the first time in Finland.

In practise the agreement means that at the Thermo-Pipe department each group of three employees will be prepared, where necessary, to share its work with a fourth employee. To demonstrate its commitment to the agreement the enterprise has permanently employed more than ten workers who were previously on temporary employment contracts at the factory. The agreement required the employer to do this only for ten workers.

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