Re:“So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they...
by ptaipale on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:57PM
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I was founder in a SW startup, and those of us who had a <15 % minority share were technically employees for whom the mandatory services had to be arranged. What it meant was that there was a paper that the managing director had to sign, and some small amount of money to pay to KELA (the public insurer). There was no occupational doctor or care service assigned.
Yes, this is obscure for this forum (perhaps that's why some people downvoted the previous comment) but just for the note, in Finland the employer is not really required to buy any services from private clinics. The legal requirement is for existence of a preventive plan, and a specification for what other services the plan covers. It's okay by law if the coverage effectively evaluates to nil, and employees just are off to the public system's queue.
The way the law is brought to action is that the private clinics have specific service tiers which they offer to employers, of which even the basic one covers consultation by a general practitioner. The easiest way for employers to fulfill the letter of the law is to buy the service.
Which means that working adults seldom tend to the public services unless they are really ill, which means more business for the private clinics and increases the appeal of a health insurance (it's easier).
This is getting really obscure for this forum, but as a reference: The specific law is
https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2001/20011383
Which in google translate is
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=y&prev...