Absences due to illness

Please inform your superior about any absences immediately by phone or e-mail. You should always fill in an absence notification for all your absences. Ask your superior for their signature, then hand it in to Pauliina Pajunen (room D239) in the Department office.

For shorter sick leaves of 1-3 days, you do not need a medical certificate from a doctor or nurse. If your absence lasts for 4-5 days, you need a nurse's or doctor's certificate. If your absence last 6 days or more, you will need a medical certificate from a doctor. Go to Mehiläinen or your local healthcare centre for the certificate.

Deliver the certificate and the absence notification form to Pauliina Pajunen in the Department office. Notice of Absence Form

Doctor's certificates and nurse's declarations could also be sent straigth to campus service unit within seven days of the firs day of illness.

Marjut Tevilin (office B110, tel. 191 50879).

University employees time of the paid sick leave is defined according to Universities common collective agreement, in Finnish (Yliopistojen yleinen työehtosopimus).  

Other absences

Reasons that give you the right to be absent from work include family leave, work-sharing leaves, completing your military or non-military service, and study leave.
Leave of Absence Form

Family leaves

Statutory family leaves are divided into special maternity, maternity and paternity, parenting, and childcare leave. The childcare leave may be fulltime, part-time or temporary. Adoptive parents are also entitled to parenting leave and childcare leave.

For more information, please see the page on family leaves in Alma.

Work-sharing leave

A work-sharing leave is free time of 90-359 days, during which time the employee's employment contract is dormant. For this time, the employee will be paid a work-sharing compensation. For members of an unemployment fund, the work-sharing compensation will be paid by the fund; for others, Kela will pay the compensation.

For more information, please see Alma.

Leave of absence

There must always be a well-grounded reason for a leave of absence. When considering a leave of absence on the grounds of private reasons, the University of Helsinki will consider how the leave will affect the work community and the workload of its members. These things will also be considered for employees seeking partial leave of absence for retiring partially.

The University of Helsinki will allow a leave of absence based on private reasons for a maximum consecutive period of two years, unless there are especially weighty motives for a longer leave.

Study leave

Study leave may be granted for studies at an institution under public supervision.

For more information, please see Alma.