Tarja Filatov

{{Short description|Finnish politician (born 1963)}}

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| name = Tarja Filatov

| image = Tarja Filatov.jpg

| office = Minister of Labour

| term_start = 25 February 2000

| term_end = 19 April 2007

| primeminister = Paavo Lipponen
Anneli Jäätteenmäki
Matti Vanhanen

| predecessor = Sinikka Mönkäre

| successor = Tarja Cronberg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|8|9|df=y}}

| birth_place = Hämeenlinna, Tavastia Proper, Finland

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| party = Social Democratic

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| alma_mater = University of Tampere

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Tarja Filatov (born 9 August 1963 in Hämeenlinna) is a member of Finnish Parliament,{{cite web|url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/EN/kansanedustajat/Pages/451.aspx|title=Tarja Filatov - Parliament of Finland|accessdate=2023-08-29}} currently serving as the Second Deputy Speaker.{{cite web|url=https://www.eduskunta.fi/EN/kansanedustajat/puhemies/Pages/default.aspx|title=Speaker and deputy speakers - Parliament of Finland|accessdate=2023-08-29}} She served as Minister of Labour between 2000 and 2007 and as one of the two Deputy Speakers of Parliament on two occasions (February 2010 – April 2011; December 2020 – 2021). As a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), she has represented the Häme constituency since 1995. Previously, she was the vice chairman of the SDP parliamentary group (March 1999 – March 2002) and later its chairman and a member of its Working Committee (both between March 2007 and February 2010).

In 2000 she was appointed Minister of Labour in Paavo Lipponen's second Cabinet (1999–2003), keeping the position in the short-lived Jäätteenmäki Cabinet (2003){{cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-100190042/new-finnish-government-appointed.html |title=New Finnish government appointed by the president |publisher=Nordic Business Report |date=2003-04-17 |accessdate=2010-01-21}} and then Matti Vanhanen's first cabinet (2003–2007).{{cite web|url=http://valtioneuvosto.fi/tietoa/historiaa/hallitukset-ja-ministerit/raportti/-/r/v9l/38|title=Finnish Government - Ministers of Labor|publisher=Valtioneuvosto.fi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414234315/http://valtioneuvosto.fi/tietoa/historiaa/hallitukset-ja-ministerit/raportti/-/r/v9l/38|archive-date=2018-04-14|url-status=dead|accessdate=14 April 2018}}

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| before = Sinikka Mönkäre

| title = Minister of Labour| years=2000–2007

| after = Tarja Cronberg}}

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