Making wellbeing services county salaries public
Act amending section 1 of the Act on the Civil Service Register
Salaries and pay components paid by wellbeing services counties and joint county authorities to their staff will become public information. The practice corresponds to the current publicity of salary information in municipalities and central government.
- Status
- Passed
- Submitted
- 10 Feb 2022
- Latest event
- 23 Mar 2022
- Votes
- 0
- Confirmed
- 1 Apr 2022
- Statute
- 212/2022
- Source
- eduskunta.fi ↗
What is proposed
The provision of the Act on the Civil Service Register on the public nature of salary information will be extended to cover wellbeing services counties and joint county authorities. In other respects, the Act on the Civil Service Register will not apply to wellbeing services counties.
What it means
The amendment affects approximately 200,000 employees and officeholders in wellbeing services counties and joint county authorities. The public and the media will have the right to receive information on their total earnings and different pay components in the same way as for municipal and state employees.
How Parliament voted
The bill passed without a vote – no MP proposed rejecting or amending it in plenary.
Stages of consideration
The bill's path from the preliminary debate to the decision, as recorded by Parliament.
- 10 Feb 2022Eduskuntakäsittelyn vireilletulo · Valtiovarainministeriö
- 15 Feb 2022Lähetekeskustelu · Täysistunto
- 9 Mar 2022Valiokunnan mietintö tai lausunto · hallintovaliokunta
- 15 Mar 2022Ensimmäinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 18 Mar 2022Toinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 18 Mar 2022Eduskunnan vastaus ja kirjelmä
Decisions by law proposal1
- 1Laki nimikirjalain 1 §:n muuttamisestaHyväksytty · 212/2022 · 1 Apr 2022
Proposed law text
The law proposals in the bill as the Government presented them. The final act may differ after committee consideration.
The law text is shown in Finnish or Swedish from Parliament's official documents; it is not translated into English.
Laki nimikirjalain 1 §:n muuttamisesta
Eduskunnan päätöksen mukaisesti lisätään nimikirjalain (1010/1989) 1 §:ään, sellaisena kuin se on osaksi laissa 627/1999, uusi 3 momentti seuraavasti:
1 §Lain soveltamisala
Mitä 7 §:n 1 momentissa säädetään virkamiehen, viran- tai toimenhaltijan ja työntekijän palkkausta koskevien tietojen julkisuudesta, sovelletaan myös hyvinvointialueiden ja –yhtymien viranhaltijoiden ja työntekijöiden palkkausta koskevien tietojen julkisuuteen.
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Tämä laki tulee voimaan päivänä kuuta 20 .
Main content of the bill (official)
The summary and title were produced with AI on 13 Sep 2026. They are not official documents – check the details in the original bill. The title and summaries are machine translations of the Finnish AI summaries. Speeches and quotations are always shown in their original language.