More than 800 social and healthcare professionals have asked the sectors' authoritative body to remove their professional credentials, according to the newspaper Iltalehti.
The deluge of requests has followed the passing of the Patient Safety Act, which can effectively compel professionally-registered employees in those fields to work during industrial actions.
The legislation went into effect in September, as healthcare workers threatened strikes during extensive salary negotiations this year.
Valvira, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health, has removed 815 names from the professional register, and an additional 570 similar requests are still waiting to be processed, according to Iltalehti.
Last year, the authority received 46 such requests.
In mid-September, Valvira reported that 469 social and healthcare professionals had requested their right to practise their profession be removed from the register.
The paper noted that the removals do not only mean striking people's names from the lists, but also revokes their right to work in their field.
Iltalehti spoke with two people who decided to remove their names from the professional register.
One of them said he left his job as an operating room orderly to study international business due to exhaustion from the work, and did not want to risk a situation in which he might be called to work simply because he had the training and qualifications to do so.