Finland’s state-owned gaming operator Veikkaus is predicted to lessen its team of workers via way of means of almost a 3rd because the employer prepares for the country’s new aggressive playing marketplace in 2026.
While Lotto and the retail slot machines will stay below Veikkaus’ monopoly, Finland’s authorities will reform the country’s playing gadget and introduce a brand new licensing gadget for on line on line casino and sports activities making a bet at the start of 2026.
In guidance for this, Veikkaus will make adjustments to its organizational structure, with negotiations protecting nearly the complete employer and its 825 team of workers members.
The negotiations may also result in the termination of employment for round 240 people, and to fabric adjustments to the phrases of employment for a in addition 195 team of workers members.
“Preparing for the shift withinside the playing enterprise and going global are key to Veikkaus’ increase strategy,” stated Veikkaus president and CEO Olli Sarekoski. “We are constructing a destiny wherein Veikkaus is Finland’s main playing employer and a substantial operator withinside the global marketplace.”
Veikkaus additionally plans to lessen the quantity of its retail playing places from sixty five arcades to round forty to 50 arcades, even as upcoming negotiations may also issue the ability closure of Casino Tampere.
“We need to be aggressive in the imminent license-primarily based totally marketplace and feasible withinside the monopoly marketplace,” persisted Sarekoski. “That is why we want to make operational adjustments that cowl the complete employer.
Sarekoski brought that the adjustments to the enterprise will deliver with it many parallel adjustments.
“We will undergo the complete agency from the attitude of lucrativeness and increase,” he stated. “We may also must make hard decisions. For some, those adjustments may also imply the termination in their employment relation. We may be being concerned for and searching after them.”