Employment areas replace TE Offices
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- Income security
- Job seeking
- Unemployment
TE Offices will be abolished at the beginning of 2025. In future, you will be able to obtain the services of the employment services from the employment area in your municipality.
TE Offices will be abolished at the beginning of 2025. At the same time, responsibility for organising employment services will be transferred to municipalities.
After the turn of the year, you will receive the necessary public employment services in your municipality. However, few municipalities will be able to organise services on their own. As a rule, municipalities will organise services in cooperation with other municipalities. This type of cooperation area is called an employment area.
There are 45 employment areas in total. You can check the website of your municipality to see which municipality is a member of an employment area. The website of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy has a handy tool that will help you find out which employment area provides employment services for you, based on your municipality.
What will change?
The change of responsibility does not affect the application for earnings-related daily allowance.
If you are already unemployed or laid off, the change does not require you to take any new steps. Keep your job application in force and otherwise act in accordance with what you have previously agreed at the TE Office. You can contact them in the Contact section of the Job Market Finland.
If you become unemployed or are laid off after the reform, log on to the Job Market Centre and register as a jobseeker in the Contact section. You can contact the Public Employment Service in the same place
Tasks of the employment areas
The municipalities, through the employment area, are responsible for supporting job search and monitoring the obligations related to the payment of unemployment benefits. After the turn of the year, you can contact the employment area in the following situations:
- if you register as a jobseeker
- you need help or advice from the employment services to find a job
- you are considering a training or course that could help you find a job
- you are considering starting a business
- you need wider support to find a job (e.g. wage subsidy)
- you want more information about your unemployment benefit obligations
- you want more information about the Labour Policy Statement
You may have already received employment services in your municipality. This is because some municipalities have been involved in a pilot scheme where the municipality has been responsible for providing employment services.
Employment services of the Unemployment Fund
We also offer a range of employment support services. Our services are entirely voluntary and there are no consequences for not using them.
You cannot use our services as a substitute for compulsory public employment services without an agreement with the Employment Service.
When you use our services, you must always act in accordance with what you have agreed with the public Employment Service.