Employment Benefit

When you work legally in Finland, you pay, among other things, an unemployment insurance payment that is deducted from the pay you receive. If you are made redundant, the Finnish government will pay you unemployment benefit for the duration of your unemployment.

This benefit is the same amount for everybody but it is considerably smaller than the earnings-related unemployment benefit. The amount of the earnings-related unemployment benefit will be calculated from your earnings.

What to do so that you too could receive the earnings-related unemployment benefit? This is what you need to do: As you join a trade union you automatically also join an unemployment benefit fund. A part of your union membership fee goes to the unemployment benefit fund. You benefit from paying the fee so that if you become unemployed, your unemployment benefit will be based on your pay. This is called earnings-related unemployment benefit.

Members of Pardia are automatically members of:

• Unemployment Fund Statia or
   
• JATTK Unemployment Fund.