Tekijä (19.08.2026 - Heikki Jokinen) The Industrial Union picked out six typical jobs as examples of how much pay would fall if
Sunday and overtime allowances were to disappear entirely. The biggest negative impact would be felt by those doing continuous shift work, the union estimates.
A person working on a hot rolling mill in a continuous shift job would would lose almost 11 per cent in annual income. That amounts to nearly 5,400 euros.
Though his or her annual working time is shorter than the other example persons on this calculation, and the work includes no overtime at all, deleting the Sunday allowances would hit hard.
- The effects cannot be tied to any specific job title. Rather, the key factor is that if the nature of the work is continuous shift work, the hardship is greater, Nevaranta says.
Five out of the six example persons do day work. Of these, the most significant drop in pay would be felt by a process controller in the plastics and chemical products industry, six per cent of their annual salary. That amounts to almost 3,000 euros.
A carpenter would suffer the least, with a 1.5 per cent cut, which is a bit more than 500 euros. The other three example persons would endure in and around a three per cent cut in pay, which is more than one thousand euros per year.
These differences depend on the hourly wage rate and on how much overtime and Sunday work is done.
Eliminating these allowances would not only affect those working in the industrial sector. It would impact hundreds of thousands of workers on hourly wage rates, for example, in healthcare, transport, and ports.