Changes to the TE services
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Topics
- Income security
- Job seeking
- Law change
- Unemployment
- YTK
The TE-offices were abolished at the beginning of the year and public employment services were transferred to the municipalities. To this end, municipalities have set up employment areas. The employment areas have now started to operate.
The employment areas have built up their services on their own terms. Indeed, one of the drivers of the reform was that locally delivered employment services are more relevant and effective when the needs of the local economy are well understood.
Publicly available employment services can be found online at tyomarkkinatori.fi. When you register with the Job Market, you are registering as a jobseeker, so the address is important.
What is my employment area?
Go to the Job Market regional website https://tyomarkkinatori.fi/en/regional-pages. Enter the name of your municipality in the search box and the service will tell you which employment area you are in.
The service will take you to the regional pages, which will show you your employment area. You can also see news about your area and find job vacancies instantly.
Unemployment protection
When applying for unemployment benefit, always remember to register as a jobseeker in good time and also to keep your job application valid. You can do this by using the Job Market Centre.
Then follow the instructions given by the employment services.
Glossary
Public employment service: public employment services safeguard the availability of skilled labour and access to employment for job seekers, and promote the creation of new business, the conditions for business and the quality of working life.
Public employment services provide:
- employment services
- information, advice and guidance services
- coaching
- employment training
- transition security training
Te-office: the government agency responsible for organising public employment services until the end of 2024.
Labour authority: the authority of a municipality or group of municipalities responsible for organising public employment services in its area of competence.
Employment area: a cooperative area of municipalities formed to provide public employment services.
Job Marketplace: a publicly funded digital service produced by the Keha Centre to provide information on all job situations and related services and to match job vacancies with anonymous jobseeker profiles. In addition, the Job Marketplace offers the possibility to plan a business using a business plan tool. In the Job Finder’s ‘About’ section, the individual customer can deal with the Public Employment Service and register as a jobseeker.
Unemployment Fund: the Unemployment Fund is a mutual body whose purpose is to provide income security for its members.
The Unemployment Fund can support the employment of its members by providing job placement, information, advice and guidance services, expert assessments, coaching and other similar services. The employment services of the Unemployment Fund are not public employment services.