Airport security screening jobs

[DMC]

What about some going twice or more? I think it should be movement of persons.

I agree with you that movement of persons would seem more likely, but the source of the figures did say passengers. I don't think it makes any difference to my conclusion though; I would expect that more foreigners visit Finland than there are Finns travelling abroad. I would be surprised if the average annual number of foreign trips per Finn is over 1. It could be, but even if it is there is no logic behind tummansininen conclusion that it must be so.

[Rick1]

More than 13 million passengers used Helsinki airport in 2007. The number of passengers grew 8% compared to the year before.

I think I would go for: more then 50 percent will be Finnish-Swedish speaking because also the national movements are included

[DMC]

I think I would go for: more then 50 percent will be Finnish-Swedish speaking because also the national movements are included

That may well be true. The real point is that if it s 50% it is just coincidence. It could be more, or less.

[lusyana]

Hello everybody,

But why have to be just European??!

Lusyana.

[Rip]

Totally agree that you have to be able to communicate in Finnish but in my opinion if it is not a government organisation they are not allowed to demand Finnish or EU-citizenship. But I noticed in Finland that nobody is checking effectively this, age or gender requirements/discrimination.

I don't know. Maybe there is some sort of "security exception" here. Otherwise it would seem strange to put such a requirement openly in writing - after all it would be easy to sue them if you're right.

[prosenfi]

I agree that someone working at the airport should know Finnish well enough to help the 'customers' there. For the same reason when I lived in the southwest USA I thought it made sense for companies and government to prefer workers who spoke both Spanish and English since there were enough uni-lingual customers in both languages. (I was fairly well hated for having this opinion... not on anyone's Christmas lists). Maybe if I'm only working at the airport cleaning bathrooms I don't need to understand Finnish too well, but for the security positions the worker should know at conversational level. almost always the job is routine, but it is after all a security position and the ability to explain things (i.e. needing to do a patdown of someone who keeps setting off the metal detector) would be essential.