The collective agreement between the Finnish Forest Industries Federation and the Paper Workers’ Union is a two years agreement, which will raise wages by 0.5 percent during the first year. In addition, the parties agreed on considerable development of the collective agreement in order to strengthen the industy's competitiveness and to maintain as many jobs as possible. The parties agreed also on developing of the collective agreement in order to support wellbeing at work together with continuous improvement of competitiveness and productivity, to provide new working hours models and to clarify the agreement. The agreement between the Finnish Forest Industries Federation and the Union of Salaried Employees in the paper industry is also a two years’ agrrement that will raise the wages by 0.5 percent during the first year.The parties also agreed on the development of the collective agreement and work arrangements during sick leaves in cases where the person is not entirely unable to work.Both new agreements covers the period April 1 2010 - March 31 2012.