Benefon Oyj - Company Announcement

BENEFON INDUSTRIAL PROCEDURE COMPLETED

The industrial co-operation procedure of Benefon Oyj, informed on 23.8.2007 and 
commenced on 30.8.2007, has now been completed. The solution, touching all      
personnel in Finland, reached in the negotiations consists of so called         
alternate forced leaves such that the alternate forced leaves agreed already in 
the spring for production personnel and comprising one week per month will be   
extended to comprise now two weeks per month. In addition, the alternate forced 
leaves will now be applied also to office personnel for whom the leaves will    
equally comprise two weeks per month as a rule, with some exceptions. The       
extended alternate forced leave program will be applied for production personnel
as of 29.10.2007 and for office personnel as of 12.11.2007, and it will continue
for the time being.                                                             

At the moment, Benefon employs in Finland 59 people, of whom 22 people work in  
production duties.                                                              


BENEFON OYJ                                                                     




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