Former Nuutti Takkinen, 43, former journalist of the Half -Seven program, has won the YLE’s dismissal dispute over Ylelaradio Oy.
It took more than three years for journalist Nuutti Takkinen to receive the refund he claimed. Archives from 2004. Mauri Ratilainen/ AOP
- According to the Helsinki Court of Appeal, the Finnish Broadcasting Company had chained its long -term employee in a fixed -term employment relationship year after year.
- Ylen should have made a permanent employment relationship with Nuutti Takkinen in 2021.
- The court sentenced YLE to pay Takkinen a total of 36,795 and default interest.
On Friday, the Helsinki Court of Appeal confirmed the outcome of the judgment of the Helsinki District Court in the summer of the District Court to oblige the Broadcasting to pay the reporter Nuutti Takkinen Compensation for unjustified termination of employment EUR 29,651, including interest on late payment.
Takkinen made his last years mostly popular Half -seven program.
Furthermore, by decision of the court, the Finnish Broadcasting Company must pay Takkinen’s compensation of EUR 5,086 for applying a different employment contract to many of him than applied to the regular employees of the same program.
Legal costs of EUR 147,509
In practice, Takkinen received a lower salary than many colleagues and did not have, for example, the right to occupational health services or annual leave.
Ylen also has to pay Takkinen’s salary of EUR 1,059.
As a rule, the litigation costs of the dispute will pay the dispute. Thus, YLE has to pay Takkinen’s legal costs at two legal degrees of 63,242.
In total, the trial costs YLE € 147,509.
Tens of fixed -term
For the first time, journalist, Medianomi Takkinen worked for YLE from 2004 to 2014. At that time, he had 22 fixed -term tasks. He worked for a couple of years elsewhere, but was included in the popular Half seven program in early 2015.
In the following years, Takkinen had 20 deadlines with the Finnish Broadcasting Company, most of which concerned half the seven substitutes.
Typically, the deadline ended at the end of the calendar year and then continued again in January. The court estimates that repeated and repeated periodicities were due to budget reasons.
The Helsinki District Court considered that YLE should have stabilized Takkinen by 1 April 2020 at the latest.
According to a recent decision of the Court of Appeal, the employer should have changed the Takkinen employment relationship to an indefinite period in early August 2016. He did the same job as regular journalists working on the same program, and there were already several deadlines. It was clear that there was a need for Takkinen’s work.
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Takkinen demanded from his employer in the summer of 2021 that his employment relationship should be changed to an indefinite period, and at the same time the employment contract should be changed. In addition, he claimed compensation for his old wage loss.
The Finnish Broadcasting Company did not agree to the demands. In December of the same year, Takkinen announced that he had received another job and left YLE.
Takkinen later brought the dismissal of the employment relationship against the Finnish Broadcasting Company. The matter was arranged, but Takkinen refused to agree on Yle’s request for the confidentiality of the settlement agreement.
The Helsinki District Court considered that Takkinen had the right to refuse a settlement.
The Finnish Broadcasting Company appealed to the Court of Appeal, also demanding his legal costs from Taskinen. The opposite happened.
Yle: Program Reduced
From start to finish, Yleisradio Oy opposed Takkinen’s legal action.
According to YLE, it had justified the reasons for the fixed -term. Yle denied that the budget reasons had determined the length of the periodic.
The need for work was not continuous. For the most part, Takkinen’s deadline had been the substitutes of regular workers.
The Finnish Broadcasting Company also pointed out that even if Half -seven There is still a popular program, with fewer inserts in recent years. According to the Finnish Broadcasting Strategy, resources are aimed at traditional television work to digital production.