"According to Pentikäinen, two additional working days would increase government tax revenues by about 500 million euros annually. In addition, he said the public sector would save around 100 million euros by no longer paying holiday bonuses for these days.

The proposal would see employees' annual working hours increase by about 0.6 percent."

by FinnishAlien

25 comments

  1. How about instead large businesses pay larger amounts of tax.

  2. I propose not to make workers’ lives any more shitty.

  4. I propose we use to the money saved to fire these people into the Sun.

  5. I never get these off anyway so I don’t care. I feel nobody celebrates these so it wouldn’t matter to many people.

  6. Fucking government run by MBAs who never studied history. 

  7. The number of public holidays (arkipyhät) varies by year between seven and ten. Can the Federation of Finnish Enterprises show us that the Finnish state systematically has significantly better tax revenues on those years there are just seven or eight holidays than on those where there are ten? Show us the data, it should be easy to prove the claim.

  8. OK, as an employee, I will accept to work 0.6% more if businesses and those who have income from their profits agree to pay 0.6% more income tax.

    How is that?

  9. Enough punishment of the people who actually work. Cut other spending first.

  10. So which ones are getting cut? Easter? Midsummer? Christmas? I find it hard to believe those would be that productive to work on instead of having as holidays. This lobbying attempt is just for employers to have to pay less for their employees that do work on those days (cashiers, security guards etc).

  11. Fuck this cunt and all his cohorts. We need to strengthen the negotiating power of our unions, outlaw the Federation of Finnish Enterprises and jail all its members.

  12. Ah yes, the private sector looking out for the public sector. Fucking LOL.

    I propose that Suomen Yrittäjät go fuck themselves in the peehole and substantially raise wages so people will pay more taxes that the government can use for defense spending, if they are so inclined.

    A five percent wage raise across the board would bring in substantially more tax revenue than €500.000/year, I reckon.

  14. All we need to do to reach the defense spending goal is actually start calculating the hidden costs of our conscript system properly. The US gets away with counting things like military spouses’ insurance as military spending, we need to stop being the “model student” and straight-up count all lost potential tax revenue from conscription as well as Valtiokonttori insurance costs as explicit defense spending.

  16. Can these fuckwits just … fuck off ?? every time they need another penny they come for our asses look up.

  17. Sure, these vultures would next propose cutting off public holidays altogether, like how the murican yellow-orange fat one said a few days back! Then what’s next, paternity, maternity leaves, reducing minimum wages, child labour?

  19. Hopefully our esteemed CEO Backpfeifengesicht-nen isn’t involved in “tax planning” schemes while he uttered this proposal

  20. Of course they do, it doesn’t affect them in any negative way.

  21. Why not just working 24/7? without any holiday and no weekends? So that the rich people can get more rich? Sounds fair /s

  22. ..and did Pentikäinen limited this decrease of holidays only for the public sector, didn’t he?

  23. Businesess looking to fck the working class is a timeless tale.

  24. Yea…

    Fuck that can we please stop making life even more shit?

    What’s next 6-7 day work week?

    Seriously we should start sharpening guillotines at this point.

    Why is it that it’s always us not the wealthy elite who has to take part of “helping” the common good?

  25. Regardless of how we or rich assholes feel about this, I come from slovenia, where this was already tried by Janez Janša. In slovenia, 2nd january and 2nd may are public holidays and for a short time they removed those 2 holidays for the same reasons as this… “think of the money we could make!!”. Everyone just took vacation anyway on those days or called in sick with massive hangover after new year/1st may. Profits from removing those days were none. Those 2 holidays have since been returned to the calendar.

    So it has been tried and they are wrong. There would be no profit.

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