Final episode in the saga. Bank Nordea was found to have entered into union discrimination vis-à-vis one of its employees, Hannes Veskimaë who had set up a union section in January 2015. Hannes Veskimaë received support from the Swedish union Finansförbundet as well as the FNU (Nordiska FinansUnion) which both look to enhance cooperation between the Baltic States and Poland within multinational companies.
Background. Nordea’s head office sits in Stockholm, Sweden and the bank is one of the most important financial groups in Northern Europe and in the Baltic States as well as Poland. Hannes Veskimaë had been employed by Nordea for about five years at its offices in Tallin, Estonia. He was a senior employee managing some of the bank’s large company clients when he set up a union section in January 2015. Then the problems started; the bank tried to restrict his union related activities by, for...
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