Here is a page listing unemployment funds:
https://www.tyj.fi/en/join-a-fund/funds-contact-information/?profession=
Also, join a union. The benefits are often worth the money.
Here is a page listing unemployment funds:
https://www.tyj.fi/en/join-a-fund/funds-contact-information/?profession=
Also, join a union. The benefits are often worth the money.
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I’d say if you are unemployed you might want to save every penny, and that is OK. But the first day you are employed join an unemployment fund. First. Day. It is a no-brainer really, and costs about 100€/year.
What do they do?
What is the good union for IT jobs
It’s worth mentioning that you can’t benefit from these if you are a student. Just being enrolled to a school makes you a full-time student, so you can’t be unemployed at the same time. Taking online lessons while working can really bite you in the ass.
Agreed. Wish I had known years earlier…
May I ask what is an unemployment fund, and how it differs from a union?
I belong to the KOKO fund via my union TEK (there’s even a charge for KOKO membership). That means I’m covered/a member of an unemployment fund, correct? Do I need to do more than that? I figure you can’t sign up for *two,* right?
Just wanted to make sure, especially since now I’m going to be able to be here long enough to get permanent residency thanks to a postdoc grant. (And thus be able to *collect* on an unemployment fund if/when I lose my job/my contract runs out, since my ability to stay won’t be dependent ON that job anymore. XD)
And thank you for this info!