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This provision defines “pappisvirka” (priestly office), “pappi” (priest), and “papin virka” (priest’s office).

The chapter may grant a priest’s resignation, warn or suspend a priest, remove a priest from office in specified cases, and restore the office on request.

Määräaikaisesti pappisvirasta pidätetty pappi ei ole vaalikelpoinen kirkon papillisiin luottamustehtäviin eikä hänellä ole äänioikeutta pappisviran perusteella. Jos tuomioistuin on tuominnut papin viralta pantavaksi, vaalikelpoisuus palautuu vasta, kun tuomiokapituli on antanut uuden viranhoitomääräyksen.

Kenttäpiispa kuuluu arkkihiippakuntaan, and other military chaplains belong to the diocese where their main place of office is located.

This section defines who counts as the employer, says the parish union and its parishes are one employer for terms-of-service matters, gives the diocesan chapter certain employer tasks in official service matters, and requires the employer to have enough staff.

This provision defines who is an office holder and what counts as an employment relationship in the church/public-law context.

Authorities must ensure staff have sufficient language skills, and special exemptions from the language requirement may be granted in certain cases.

Certain church labour-market bodies may make collective agreements on pay and other employment terms for employees of the church administration bodies named in the section.

Viranhaltijoiden palvelussuhteen ehtoja voidaan täydentää kirkkojärjestyksessä tai työnantajan ohje- tai johtosäännöissä.

Pensions and family pensions for officials, employees, and their beneficiaries are regulated separately.

Puolustusvoimissa voi olla papin virkoja, ja sotilaspappeja johtaa ja valvoo kenttäpiispa.

The cathedral chapter fills prison or other institution chaplain and lecturer posts, and may appoint a temporary officeholder or substitute when needed.

A fixed-term appointment may be used only on certain grounds, and a civil servant who was fixed-term without a proper basis may claim compensation.

Virkasuhteeseen ottaminen edellyttää julkista hakumenettelyä, ja viranhakuilmoitukset on julkaistava työnantajan kuulutustaululla sekä tarvittaessa muulla työnantajan päättämällä tavalla. Hakuaika on vähintään 14 kalenteripäivää.

Viran voi joissakin tilanteissa täyttää ilman hakumenettelyä. Tuomiokapituli antaa myös määräyksen sopivalle papille ja voi määrätä väliaikaisen hoitajan ilman hakua.

For a publicly advertised office, only a person who applied in writing before the application deadline and met the eligibility requirements at that time may be appointed; the application must include proof of eligibility.

This section sets qualification rules for certain church service and employment roles, allows exemptions in some cases, and limits under-18s to fixed-term civil service only.

People appointed to a public office must have the required special qualification, unless this law says otherwise.

This section says which laws apply to foreign studies and degree-based qualification for certain church offices, including special treatment for Nordic citizens.

A person being appointed to office or ordained as a priest must provide health-related information and, if needed, undergo examinations; the employer pays necessary examination costs.

This section lets an employer set a probation period when a public employment relationship starts, with limits and special rules.

The employer must give a written statement of the essential terms of a public-service employment relationship in certain cases, and the diocesan chapter issues appointment orders for parish pastor and lector offices.

A public service relationship begins when the appointment decision is made. The official’s rights and duties begin when service starts, unless a different earlier start is provided elsewhere. An official moving immediately to another service relationship with the same employer does not have their employment relationship interrupted.

Työnantajan on huolehdittava, että viranhaltijalle annetaan hänen virkasuhteensa mukaiset etuudet ja oikeudet.

The employer must try to ensure the official can carry out assigned tasks, support career development, and promote a good, confidential workplace atmosphere.

Työnantajan on huolehdittava viranhaltijan työturvallisuudesta. Jos raskaana olevan viranhaltijan työ vaarantaa hänen tai sikiön terveyden eikä vaaraa voida poistaa, häntä on pyrittävä siirtämään sopiviin tehtäviin raskauden ajaksi.

Employers must keep a personnel register for civil servants and employees. The diocesan chapter must keep a register for diocesan priests and lecturers.

The employer must give the public official a pay statement when paying wages.

Työnantajan on sallittava viranhaltijoiden ja heidän järjestöjensä käyttää maksutta sopivia tiloja taukojen aikana ja työajan ulkopuolella tiettyjen asioiden käsittelyyn. Käyttö ei saa haitata työnantajan toimintaa.

A civil servant must perform assigned duties properly and without delay, follow applicable rules and the employer’s directions, act impartially, and not demand, receive, or accept prohibited benefits.

Certain public officials must handle urgent official duties during free time, unless they can be arranged another way, and must also substitute for another official during that official’s annual leave or day off.

This section says confidentiality is governed, in addition to this Act, by the Act on the Openness of Government Activities and other laws.

Lehtoriin sovelletaan samoja papin velvollisuuksia koskien rippisalaisuutta ja tunnustuksessa pysymistä.

Viranhaltijan on ilmoitettava muusta sivutoimesta työnantajalle, ja tietyt sivutoimet ovat kiellettyjä ilman lupaa.

Viranhaltijan on annettava työnantajalle työn hoidon arvioimiseksi tarpeelliset terveystiedot ja osallistuttava tarvittaessa tutkimuksiin; papin viran haltijaa koskevan määräyksen antaa tuomiokapituli.

A civil servant must ensure workplace safety as required by the Occupational Safety Act and the rules issued under it.

In certain child-related appointment cases, the person must show a criminal record extract to the appointing authority when asked.

A person being appointed to a public service post can be required to show a drug test certificate in the situations listed in section 7 of the privacy-in-working-life law, as a condition of appointment.

The employer may change an employment relationship to part-time in certain cases, but must hear the official first; the chief pastor’s job can be made part-time only on the official’s application, and a bishop’s or church council member’s job cannot be made part-time.

An employer needing new civil servants for a similar full-time post must first offer the job to a permanent part-time civil servant who has asked in writing to move to full-time and meets the job’s requirements.

The authority that decides permanent appointments may change an official’s duties after hearing the official, if reorganization or another justified reason requires it. For certain church offices, the responsible decision-maker is the parish priest or the joint church council.

A civil servant may be transferred to another post with the same employer if the post’s qualification requirements are met and the role is suitable; salary must not decrease, and the person must be heard before a transfer or cancellation.

On a business transfer, the transferee must follow the collective agreement in force at the time of transfer, and the transferor and transferee are jointly liable for pay or other claims due before the transfer.

Viranhaltija may be granted temporary release from official duties, and has a right to time off for municipal elected office under the municipal act.

Virkavapaa on haettava kirjallisesti, ja työnantaja päättää myöntämisestä ja kestosta, ellei muualla tai työehtosopimuksessa toisin säädetä.

The employer may decide whether to suspend or revoke a leave on the officer’s request, and must let the officer be heard before making the decision.

A civil servant is entitled to get leave for family leave reasons as provided in the Employment Contracts Act.

Työnantaja voi lomauttaa viranhaltijan tietyillä perusteilla, mutta eräitä kirkollisia viranhaltijoita ei saa lomauttaa. Tietyissä tapauksissa on pyydettävä tuomiokapitulin lausunto, ja toistaiseksi lomautetun viranhaltijan paluusta on ilmoitettava vähintään viikkoa etukäteen.

Työnantajan on annettava viranhaltijalle ennakkoselvitys ja myöhemmin kirjallinen lomautuspäätös määräaikoineen; päätös on myös toimitettava tietyille tahoille.

Lomautettu viranhaltija saa irtisanoa virkasuhteensa ilman irtisanomisaikaa lomautuksen aikana, mutta ei viimeisen viikon aikana ennen lomautuksen päättymistä, jos päättymisaika on tiedossa.

If a layoff decision is finally annulled as contrary to section 44(1) or 44(2), the civil servant is paid the regular wages lost because of the unlawful layoff under section 61.

A civil service relationship ends without notice in several listed situations, such as when a fixed term expires, a task is completed, the officeholder reaches age 68, or the officeholder leaves the church.

Piispa voi ilmoittaa erostaan tuomiokapitulille ennen säädettyä eroamisikää, jolloin virkasuhde päättyy ilmoituksessa mainittuna ajankohtana.

The employer may not dismiss a civil servant’s service relationship for reasons attributable to the civil servant unless there is a proper and weighty reason, and it must first check whether dismissal can be avoided by placing the civil servant in another service relationship.

A dismissal based on section 50 must be made within a reasonable time after the grounds for dismissal become known to the authority deciding the dismissal.

A civil service employment relationship may be terminated for economic and production-related reasons if the duties have permanently and substantially decreased, and the person cannot reasonably be placed in another suitable post or retrained.

Certain civil servants have special dismissal protection, including those on family-leave-related leave, those who are pregnant, and those who will use those leave rights. Shop stewards also have extra protection against dismissal.

The transferee may not dismiss a civil servant just because of the transfer of business. A civil servant may terminate the service relationship on the transfer date, or later in some cases, if the transfer notice was given under the stated timing rules.

The minimum notice period depends on who terminates the service relationship and how long it has lasted.

Työnantaja may end a civil servant’s employment immediately, but only for an extremely weighty reason.

Työnantajan purkamisoikeus raukeaa 14 päivän kuluttua tiedon saamisesta tai jatkuvan syyn lakkaamisesta; jos purkaminen estyy pätevästä syystä, virkasuhde voidaan purkaa 14 päivän kuluessa esteen lakkaamisesta.

Before a public employment relationship is terminated, the employee must be given a chance to be heard, may use an assistant, and the decision must be recorded and formally served.

This section names which church authorities may dismiss or terminate employment relationships, and adds a consultation requirement and one dismissal exception.

A civil servant’s employment continues uninterrupted if a dismissal, termination, or lapse decision lacked the legal ground required by law; in one court-reviewed case, the civil servant also keeps the notice-period pay.

If an unlawful termination of an office relationship has been finally decided, the employer must promptly pay the official the lost regular earnings, with specified deductions, and the official must promptly provide evidence of other income and benefits.

Työnantajan on tietyissä irtisanomistilanteissa kysyttävä paikalliselta työvoimaviranomaiselta, onko irtisanottuja viranhaltijoita työnhaussa, ja tarjottava työtä heille ensisijaisesti, jos he täyttävät kelpoisuusvaatimukset.

The provision allows a designated authority to temporarily suspend a civil servant, and also a priest, from their duties in certain suspected misconduct or inability-to-perform situations.

This section allocates which church authority decides on temporarily or permanently suspending different office-holders from duties.

Päätöksen tehneen viranhaltijan on vietävä asia viipymättä toimivaltaisen viranomaisen ratkaistavaksi, ja ennen pidättämispäätöstä viranhaltijalle on varattava tilaisuus tulla kuulluksi.

The body that decided a suspension from duty must monitor the reasons for it, and if circumstances change it must make a new decision. If a civil servant requests it, continuation of the suspension must be taken up without delay.

If a court finds the statutory grounds for terminating a public employment relationship are not met, it must, on request, consider whether the employer had grounds for dismissal.

Appeals about dismissal, rescission, reduction of working hours, or suspension from duties must be handled by a court urgently.

A civil servant may join and participate in an association, found an association, and choose not to belong to one. Interfering with or restricting these rights is prohibited.

Viranhaltijan, ja myös tietyissä tapauksissa entisen viranhaltijan tai kuolinpesän, on tehtävä kirjallinen vaatimus palkasta tai muusta taloudellisesta etuudesta kolmen vuoden kuluessa määrävuoden päättymisestä.

Työnantaja saa periä aiheettomasti maksetun palkan tai muun palvelussuhteesta johtuvan etuuden takaisin, mutta päätöksessä on ilmoitettava määrä ja peruste.

Tietyt korvausvaatimukset käsitellään hallinto-oikeudessa hallintoriita-asiana; viranhaltija voi hakea samalla tavalla käsiteltäväksi myös virkasuhteen määräaikaisuuden perusteita koskevan asian.

A departing official may request a written work certificate from the employer, and the employer must provide it under the stated time limits and content rules.

If a parish pastor’s office ends because of a change in parish division, the pastor is transferred to a curate position in the affected parish area.

Tuomiokapituli must give the elected person a commissioning order for the bishop’s office.

The field bishop is an additional member of the diocesan chapter when a case concerns a military chaplain and relates to misconduct, temporary suspension, or removal from the priestly office.

Tuomiokapituli may hold an oral hearing or inspection, must summon the parties demonstrably, and may hear witnesses and experts under oath or affirmation.

Kirkkohallitus decides on recognition/equivalence of foreign studies, training or vocational practice, and must give that decision within four months after the application is delivered, unless another rule applies.

A person dissatisfied with an authority decision may submit a written rectification request, unless this Act provides otherwise.

Decisions listed here are appealed by ecclesiastical appeal to the administrative court; in a subordinate matter, the appeal is made to the supervisory authority.

The time limit for a rectification request, and the appeal time in certain dismissal decisions, starts only after the dismissal period under 6 luvun 55 § ends.

A parish member is deemed to have been notified of a decision when the minutes or an authority decision is made publicly available, or when the result of a parish priest election is announced.

This section limits appeal and review rights for several specified church decisions and temporary suspension decisions.

Court must notify the relevant chapter when a priest is charged in a general court, unless the case falls within the stated fine/petty-fine exceptions. If a priest or certain church officials are convicted of another crime, the court must send a copy of the decision without delay to the relevant church body.

Church administration must follow the publicity rules in the Act on the Openness of Government Activities, except where the cited sections or chapter 24 say otherwise. Documents about pastoral care or diaconal work aimed at a private person must also be kept secret.

If a vote is tied, the chairperson’s vote decides it, with a lower-opinion rule for certain civil-service and church-office matters. Some tied elections are decided by lot, and a special church-order rule may let the diocesan chapter appoint a highest-vote applicant. The section also sets the law’s commencement and several transitional rules.