Reduction in working time in service sectors

PAM has made agreements with employer organisations on the paid holidays that workers will get in connection with mid-week holidays. The number of free days and the pay for them are different in different sectors. In the collective agreements made by PAM, these are called reduction in working time (työajan lyhennys).

• In the commerce sector, a system of annual leave (vuosivapaa) is used to reduce the annual working time.
• In the hotel, restaurant and leisure industry collective agreements for employees and supervisors the annual leave system is used.
• In property services sector collective agreement the system of mid-week public holidays is used until 31 December 2026 and a system of annual leave days starting on 1 January 2027.
• In adventure services a system of Z days is used.
• In the amusement, theme and adventure parks, the annual working time is reduced by Z days.
• The ski centre industry’s collective agreement has a system of Z days.

Read your sector’s collective agreement to see how the working time is reduced in your sector:

• Commerce sector
• Hotel, restaurant and leisure Industry – employees
• Hotel, restaurant and leisure industry – supervisors
• Property services sector
• List of collective agreements in all PAM’s sectors

The pay for working on midweek public holidays and some other rules about religious holidays and their eves are also different in different collective agreements.

Read about the impact of mid-week holidays on the work and on annual holidays.