"Starting this summer, employees in Finland holding a work-based residence permit will have three months to find new employment if they lose their current job. If they fail to secure a new position within that timeframe and have no other valid grounds to remain in Finland, their residence permit may be cancelled.

Following a considerable amount of criticism of the proposal during a consultation round, the bill now includes an exception for so-called specialists, who will have six months to find new work."

by FinnishAlien

16 comments

  1. I think it’s also six months for everyone who have worked in finland for 2 years.

  2. I don’t really know why this has been such a controversial topic in Finland considering most of the other western countries have very similar policies in place. For some reason this is the doing of the “evil right wing government” here, but even countries like germany and sweden have pretty much the same exact policy.

  3. Should not need exceptions, same rules for everybody

  4. finnish nazi government: “free movement, if you can provide for capitalist system. Otherwise you are human scum that does not need human rights.”

  5. What’s the controversy exactly?

    “Generally, immigrants are motivated to start working as soon as possible. This has been concretely observed in integration plans jointly developed by the TE employment office and municipal social services,” stated the South Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county.”

    I hate how yle writes these, Of course they are motivated to start working because they need the permit to stay here lol

  6. well, that’s one way to kill the Finnish tech sector. It’s already extremely difficult to attract top talent here, this just makes it all the worse.

    Employers already need to overpay competitors in other countries to temp people here to fill highly skilled roles, this will just make that cost Finnish companies even more.

  7. could someone tell me what’s the issue with this law? You have a work-based permit, and if you don’t have other means to stay here, you will just sit here for more than 3-6 months and get benefits? 3 month is good, 6 is too much in my opinion.

    If you want to stay here without, then you need permit based on family, studies or permanent residence permit. And of course, citizenship. Guys, stop being entitled!

  10. So someone can work and pay (a lot of) taxes here for 20 years, get unemployed beginning of may (usual yt cycle before summer) and then get kicked out in August. Even summer jobs start recruiting 6 months before the task. And the argument people could become Finn after 20 years living here. You have to give up often your born citizenship for that, I would have trouble giving half of my life away. It is part of me.

  14. So they must also be paying less taxes right? Right?

    Ohh so now immigrants are supposed to contribute equal amounts in taxes while getting unequal rights?

  15. The summer is just starting. It may be that there are no jobs even starting before Autumn, which is barely 3 months away.

  16. For those who have non-sense comments. People chose the government. This was part of the program. This is called democracy. Unless some other government comes and wants to change this, until then this is what it is. Let’s respect democracy

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