Employee Co-Operation Negotiations at our University
The Finnish law states how the employer should act when faced a need of decrease the number of employees. The Finnish universities are forced to cut spending as the government is cutting the funding. Our university fired less than ten from the support services. The University of Vaasa is my first long time employer so I didn't have any experiences on these lay offs before. It is surprising how sad and tired I have felt and still feel, even though I am not working on the support team. No wonder that the literature finds these situations as a drop in productivity. It is hard to say anything worth saying about this situation, it is sad even though the rector made it clear that this they didn't want to do. The most rational feeling is targeted to one colleague, friend should I say: a beautiful and clever young women. I am very concerned how this will affect our coffee club, where we spend all the pauses at work, when this one very important and dear person will no longe...