Set up your organizations in the order shown below. This structure forms the basis for defining the relationship between the employee and the employer - this is important in terms of both legal liability and identifying the breakdown for various statutory reports.
Set up a business group and any other non-Finnish specific organizations required by your enterprise. You can enter employment defaults for a business group or HR organization.
Attention: Once you set up a new business group, you must link the place of residence to the regional membership.
See: Linking the Place of Residence to the Regional Membership
Create your local units and enter their additional information. A local unit is the location of the enterprise's branch. The employment defaults you enter here override the defaults entered at a higher level.
Create your legal employers and enter statutory information and employment defaults for them. The employment defaults you enter here override the defaults entered at a higher level.
Link each local unit to a legal employer. You can assign multiple local units to one legal employer.
Create your third party organizations, such as pension insurance providers, accident insurance providers, magistrate offices, trade unions, and provincial tax offices. You must add a further organization classification of Payee Organization to these third party organizations to process payroll and third party payments.
Create the external organizations (such as employer's association) of which your organization is a member. You use this information for various reporting purposes.
For more information on how to create the organizations and additional information described in this topic, please see: Creating an Organization and Entering Additional Information