The county stated at the time that the decision to end their employment was due to the workers' lack of professional competence as well as their poor Finnish language skills.

Noting the county's explanation that the workers were dismissed because of their poor professional and Finnish language skills, the workers' legal representative pointed out that the employer did not try to address these alleged issues during the workers' probationary periods — or look to help them in any way.

He also criticised the way their Finnish language skills were assessed.

"According to the employment contracts, the language skills should have been determined via a general language examination, but the welfare county arranged the language tests itself," he said.

by Tracerneo

10 comments

  1. I doubt “a general language examination” even touches on the vocabulary that has to be understood by medical professionals. It’s not a context I would want to deal with misunderstandings in.

  2. If they dont understand why you need exceptional language skills and know how to do the work, i dobt think they are any good for this country and should go cry about it elsewhere.

    We need skilled workers, not idiots like this, who seem to either be too stupid to understabd rationale behind getting fired, or they just want to exploit the country offering nothing but crapping on our healthcare system. Either way they should be kicked out.

  3. “motivated by discrimination”

    Fck this shit. They were in their koeaika and it was found they are not able to the jobs.

  5. One good thing about all this publicity, is that other health areas in Finland will think 10 times before hiring foreign workers that don’t speak the language, and who studied in places with lower quality standards of education.

  7. I mean court should decide whos in the right, but if they are wrong and this is bullshit I just hope taxpayers dont pay for their lawyers and the court cost. If they really cant do their job properly and still win in court the law needs to be adressed

  8. A friend of mine studies an English language nursing degree in a UAS and I took a look at the curriculum before, it was a joke. There was maybe one or two Finnish courses on the curriculum on a three year 180 credit course.

    Those degrees should be extended to four years, 240 credits with those extra 60 credits being Finnish courses.

    It’s completely pointless to have English speaking nurses train in Finland who intend to work here and who can’t speak Finnish. 

  9. For fucks sakes. It is not our responsibility to hire everybody who wants to work here.

    Especially if they don’t have the vital, life or death importance level language skills. My father is in a hospital. He had a cerebral hemorrhage. Even I can’t understand more than maybe 30 % of his speech. I really don’t want his nurses to barely speak Finnish.

    And no, I am not a persu. You can check my account, if you doubt me.

  10. There are tons of articles about foreign students who have high TOEFL scores and get into English-speaking universities but struggle to speak English in the internet.

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