Warp wrote:
>
> Finnish law protects employees from being fired at a whim, without a good
> reason (monetary problems or employee misconduct are good reasons; the
> refusal of an employee to work extra hours for free certainly isn't). Even

Actually refusing to work extra hours even when paid isn't a good reason 
for firing. The law makes no exceptance on the wording that extra hours 
must always be separately accepted by the employee.

> Employers get around this tiny problem with a trick: Rather than employ
> people indefinitely, they employ them a few months at a time, always
> renovating the employment contract at the end of the previous one. This
> way they can "soft-fire" someone by simply not renovating the contract.
> This is *technically* legal (because they are not firing anybody), yet
> achieves practically the same effect as firing someone at a whim.

After 3 short-time contracts it's actually illegal to just let people 
off and hire someone else instead (except, of course, the employee 
himself is willing to go).

-Aero

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