Manse PP has submitted its response to the district court of Pirkanmaa regarding the dismissal dispute. According to the club, it terminated Toni Kohonen’s contract based on the Employment Contracts Act.
Manse PP has submitted its response to the district court of Pirkanmaa Toni Kohonen to the subpoena application.
The club opposes Kohonen’s demands and demands that he compensate the court costs incurred by the club. So far, legal fees are around 15,600 euros.
Kohonen sued Manse PP in April, because it considered the dismissal in March to be illegal. Kohonen demanded 111,000 euros from the club, and legal costs of around 9,000 euros at the time.
Manse PP demands the district court to reject Kohonen’s demands. According to his opinion, Manse PP terminated the employment relationship based on the Employment Contracts Act.
Kohonen has commented on Mansen’s counterpart briefly on social media. Kohonen published a succinct message in the stories section of Instagram on Monday.
– Now the v-wind is over. We will watch this until the end!
Manse: Serious deficiencies in work performance
According to Mansen, Kohonen has violated and neglected obligations related to the employment relationship in such a serious way that there were no conditions for the continuation of the employment relationship.
In the response, it is stated that the players and especially the captaincy reported that there are serious shortcomings in Kohonen’s work performance. According to Manse PP, Kohonen, for example, repeatedly missed the team’s practices without an acceptable reason. According to the defendant, he also did not always notify the team of his absences and repeatedly left training facilities unbooked.
According to Manse PP, there were other shortcomings in Kohonen’s operation. According to Manse PP, the exercises prepared by Kohonen were “often completely inconsistent”.
Kohonen also didn’t always come to joint meetings, such as pre-game tactics meetings and post-game decommissioning meetings. According to the respondent, the game and annual plans were also incomplete or incomplete.
Termination threat warning
According to the response, the deficiencies in Kohonen’s work performance were reviewed at the end of November, when the game manager was urged to increase the systematization of his coaching activities. According to Mansen, the matter was discussed for the second time on December 22 at the labor management hearing.
According to Mansen, it was revealed at the event that Kohonen had been working at the same time in Kouvola for another employer on the days he should have been working for Manse PP in Tampere.
According to the response, Kohonen received a verbal warning threatening dismissal at the end of the event. Manse PP also urged Koho to start taking care of the other tasks specified in the employment contract, which included, for example, the club’s sales and marketing work
According to the counterpart, there were additional tasks in the employment contract because Kohonen had demanded a monthly salary of 4,500 euros.
Didn’t arrive at his workplace
Manse PP invited Kohonen to a labor management discussion on February 23. According to the response, Kohonen was informed at the event that Manse PP is considering terminating the employment relationship due to continuous neglect, insufficient work performance, unauthorized absences and dishonesty.
According to the society, Kohonen was offered the option that the job description would be changed and that he would perform other tasks mentioned in the employment contract. Manse PP also offered to terminate the employment relationship by mutual agreement, but no agreement was reached on this.
Manse says that he announced that Kohonen was therefore obliged to arrive at his workplace in Tampere on February 27, but he did not arrive the whole week.
Manse PP delivered the termination notice to Kohonen on March 23. According to the contract, the employment ended on April 6, 2023.