Employment authority may grant you discretionary expense allowance when you participate in a service that supports your employment as agreed in your employment plan or a plan replacing it. You can receive compensation from the employment authority if you incur inevitable costs for participating in a service and you do not receive unemployment security from Kela or an unemployment fund.
Expense allowance can be paid for your participation in
The cooperation model of multidisciplinary support that promotes employment helps you find employment if you need comprehensive support. The aim of the service is to remove obstacles to employment related to, for example, your life situation, state of health, work and functional capacity, and talents and vocational skills.
As an employer, the employment authority provides you with advice and assistance in filling a vacancy and information on your sector’s jobseekers and the labour market situation. Financial support may be granted to employers if the person employed is unemployed or the person’s disability or illness requires other support.
Employment services for employers include the publication of jobs, the provision of information on vacancies, the application and presentation of jobseeker candidates, and the organisation of recruitment events.
When you register as a jobseeker, you start your job search and customer relationship with the employment services of your area. As a jobseeker, you can apply for unemployment benefit from Kela or your unemployment fund.
The employment authority advises and guides you in applying for work and offers other services that help you integrate and get work. Such services may include integration training and multilingual social orientation, where you can find information about Finnish society.
As an employer, you can receive support for arranging working conditions if the disability or illness of a person you are going to employ or who is already employed by you requires
The subsidy improves the chances of people with demand-specific work ability
to find suitable employment or to keep their job in the open labour market.
You can get information and advice from the employment authority in your area when you need more information about employment services.
You will receive information and advice on, for example,
The start-up grant is discretionary support for a new entrepreneur. Its purpose is to secure an entrepreneur’s livelihood at the starting phase of new full-time entrepreneurship when the income generated by the company is still low.
The start-up grant is granted for six months from the time you start as a full-time entrepreneur or expand your part-time business to full time. You may receive an extension to the start-up grant so that the total duration is no more than 12 months.
If you have an injury or illness diagnosed by a physician that affects your employment and you are about to be employed by a large employer, you can ask the employment authority for a certificate stating that you have been registered as partially disabled in the employment services customer information system. A large employer is an employer who has insurance from an employment pension company and whose annual salary exceeds the large employer’s salary limit.
In some cases, you may be able to study independently while receiving unemployment benefits. Independent studies include studies where an educational institution is responsible for the provision and student selection instead of the employment authority. During independent studies, you are obliged to apply for and accept work, and participate in services promoting employment.
You can receive unemployment benefits for short-term, part-time or full-time studies.
As an unemployed jobseeker, you can go to another EU or EEA country or Switzerland to find work and receive unemployment benefits from Finland.
You can receive basic daily allowance paid by Kela or daily unemployment allowance paid by an unemployment fund from Finland. You cannot receive labour market subsidy during the trip.
You can receive unemployment benefits in another country for a maximum of three months. In order for the benefit to be paid, the local employment authority must also accept you as a jobseeker in the country where you are looking for a job.
