ABSTRACT
Chapter four in this thesis was concerned with the formulation of the working hours legislation, and chapter five dealt with the parliamentary deliberation and decision making. This chapter is concerned with the implementation stage of the new working hours law, focusing on individual workers and employers. The aim is to evaluate whether the corporate pluralist arrangements have had any effect on the implementation of flexible (non-standard) working hours in the 1990s. In the past it is fairly obvious that the corporate pluralist arrangements mattered for the ordinary workers in Finland. The conclusion of the general agreement between the main economic interest groups in 1966, as well as subsequent legislation with a gradual implementation of a 40-hour working week, was naturally of great importance, since Saturday became the second day off, besides Sunday. Other important outcomes of the broad-based settlements were legislative revisions on pensions and annual holidays in the 1970s.
