HS: Nurses could be ordered to work under fine threat under government draft bill

THE MINISTRY of Social Affairs and Health has finalised a draft proposal for a patient safety act that would enable authorities to limit certain industrial actions taken by the Finnish Union of Practical Nurses (Super) and the Union of Health and Social Care Professionals in Finland (Tehy).

Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday wrote that the act would grant regional state administrative agencies the right to order the unions to suspend strikes and, if necessary, order individual employees to work under the threat of fine.