- Labour legislation
- Employment contract and employment relationship
- Working hours and annual holiday
- Improving and maintaining employees’ competence
- Non-discrimination and equality in working life
- Protection of privacy at work and working with children
- Co-operation procedure and other personnel representation systems
- Key points of the Co-operation Act
- Negotiation obligation
- Content and timing of negotiation obligation
- Duty to inform representatives of personnel groups
- Undertaking’s general plans, principles and objectives
- Personnel and training plan
- Matters to be handled in the co-operation procedure
- Co-operation procedure when the use of personnel is reduced
- Confidentiality and sanctions
- Co-operation within a Finnish group of undertakings
- Co-operation within a community-wide group of undertakings and an undertaking
- Employee Involvement in European Companies (SE) and European Cooperative Societies (SCE)
- Personnel funds
- Key points of the Co-operation Act
- Collective agreements and mediation in labour disputes
- Contractor’s obligations and liability
- Employee’s position if employer becomes insolvent
- Working life development
- Integration of immigrants
- Employment
- Support and compensations
- Employment Bulletin and Employment Service Statistics
Unemployment security
Unemployment security provides unemployed job-seekers with the financial means to seek work and to improve their chances of finding work. There are three types of unemployment benefits in Finland: earnings-related allowance, basic daily allowance and labour market subsidy.
An Employment and Economic Development Office (TE Office) issues a labour policy statement concerning the job-seekers right to an unemployment benefit. The labour policy statement pertains to the labour-policy prerequisites of the benefit. The TE Office submits the labour policy statement directly to the party paying the unemployment benefit (unemployment fund or Kela).
The unemployment funds and Kela decide on other prerequisites for granting the unemployment benefits, make the payment decisions and transfer the benefits to the recipients.
Management, steering and development of the labour-policy aspects of the unemployment security are the responsibility of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. Management, steering and development of the matters concerning the labour market subsidy are the responsibility of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
Further information:
Timo Meling, timo.meling(at)tem.fi