YOU WANT TO WORK IN FINLAND? Average salary is 4.000 Euros, and here is what you need

Finland had the top unemployment rate at the beginning of 1990s when it was 20%, now it is 8.5%.

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According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Improvement, salaries in Finland are average in European Union, but the work time is shorter, unemployment rate is lower, and unemployment benefits are bigger.

Because of this and a lot more, Finland is an eligible country for unemployed from all parts of the world because they know they can feel safe in Finland.

There are great regional differences between local work markets in Finland. Rural Finland does not offer many new positions.

They are mostly at the south of the country and in big cities.

Nowadays, many jobs have steady contracts; however, there are still part-time contracts, but this is not that often like in other parts of Europe.

If you intend to seek and find a job in Finland, you usually need a residence permit which you get when you get a job, and this is given by the state.

Of course, for the work up to 3 months, you do not need the permit.

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You need two photos done by Finnish regulations: 36mm x 47mm. Your head has to be centered and you should look directly to the camera.

Facial expression should be neutral, mouth closed, eyes wide open.

If you have glasses, you are to take them off.

Before you go to Finland you are to file a request.

This request is filed exclusively in the Finland embassy in your country.

Only in extreme cases you can get the permit once you enter Finland and only in the police station where you are located.

You can also send the request online, but you are to visit the embassy and confirm your identity give your finger prints and show original documents.

After that, your file gets in motion. If you already got a job before coming to Finland, your employer has to send you the contract, TEM 0.54 you are to fill in in the embassy, and get the permit.

You are filling the OLETY1 form, and your employer TEM 0.54.

You can get a job in Finland without the permit in these cases:

- If you are a teacher, translator, professional artist, sportsman, referee, coach, season worker, and you work up to 90 days.

- If you lead a tourist group in Finland, international driver distributing merchandise, up to 90 days.

- If you are a sailor sailing on international ships or between the harbors.

- If you are an explorer and you come to Finland according to a binding, because of a scientific research, up to 90 days.

- If you are working in a company from another EU/EEA country and you came to Finland for temporary acquisition or cooperation, up to 90 days.

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Discrimination in Finland is strongly forbidden and the law is equal for everyone.

An employer cannot treat their employees differently because of their sex, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, invalidity, religion, beliefs, political activity, or anything else.

This law is applied before a client gets a job, and later, during the job course.

When you get the salary information, the numbers are usually in gross form, and you are to calculate the expenses and taxes, the net form.

You can find all of that on this link.

There is no universal minimal wage in Finland, but this is acknowledged by collective contracts in the company itself.

If you have to take a sick leave, you get the salary during the lave too, because of the contract you signed.

Collective contracts are made one for every 1-3 years.

Salaries are given once or twice a month, but more often once a month.

You get your salary on the bank account you have.

The salary is given on the 1st, 15th, or on the last Thursday in month.

Deductions usually are local tax, state tax, and church tax (1%) if you are a member of the church.

This money is used for education, social security, health and social care, state organizations and institutions, and army.

The amount of money you get at the end of the month is completely enough for a normal life.

Average salary is between 4.000 and 4.500 Euros.

Minimal wage and minimum work conditions are determined by collective contract.

When you sign the contract, you get to see what kind of collective contract goes for that company.

If the company does not have the collective contract, the Work Law is still on.

If the employer offers worse conditions than stated in the law, these conditions are void, and the collective contract conditions are applied.

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Almost all Finnish people are in some kind of syndicate. There are two basic syndicates: "Central organization" and "Confederation of paid workers".

Those syndicalist organizations have their major representatives.

It is called Luottamusmies and you call them if you have a problem with your employer which you do not know how to solve.

Work schedule in Finland must not go over 8 hours per day/40 hours a week.

Full work time is 7.5-8 hours a day, while reduced work time is 4-6 hours a day.

If you are to work more than 6 hours a day, you are entitled to 1 hour break during which you can leave your work place.

Every employee has to have 35 hours of rest during the week, even if it means only Sunday.

If you work on Sunday, you get 100% overtime.

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Employer and employee can negotiate a flexible work time, up to 40 hours a week.

After signing the contract, the employee can come to work between 7-9 AM.

Employee has to agree to working overtime.

In the period of 4 months employee can have up to 138 hours of overtime, or 250 hours in one calendar year.

Vacation for workers who have been in the company for less than 1 year is 24 days.

You should sign the contract only if you understood all the parts of it.

The contract should encompass the full name and address of the company, date of getting a job, the date of the beginning and the end of contract period, place of work, and the work schedule which can be kokopäivätyö – full time, or osa-aikatyö - reduced work time, as well as vuorotyö - shift work.

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Up until the date of finishing the job, everything goes normally. If the employee is quitting a job, he is not to provide the reasons for that.

If the employer is firing the employee, they are bound to give reasons on paper.

If the employee is taking a sick leave for a kid's disease, the kid has to be not more than 10 years old.

Expectant mothers are entitled to 50 days of leave before the delivery, or sooner, if the doctor suggests that.

The maternity leave goes up to 105 work days.

After the leave, one of the parents can get a parent leave to take care of the child.

For that period, they get the parent compensation, which depends on the salary.

This leave can last up to 158 work days.

In special cases, a parent can be on a leave until the child is three years of age, and during this time they get the compensation.

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When talking about deficient job positions in Finland, the things are like this.

Several years ago, there was a major generation change in the nurse field and to help secure the number needed, every fourth child would have to train for a nurse, which is unreal.

This is why Finland enlists nurses from other countries.

It is correct that you need to know the language, and this is why many foreigners feel pressured, but many of them put the effort and learn the language because they know that they will have a good and well-paid job.

For nurses it is especially important to know the language because they are to have a good communication with the patients.

Apart form nurses, Finland seeks for psychologists, cooks, coaches, babysitters, financial experts midwives, pharmacists, software developers, dental technicians...

Today, thanks to EURES job network, work mobility is greater than ever, because there are about 1000 advisors helping companies to find the workers from abroad.

These offices are extremely important for the people abroad seeking a job in Finland.

EURES organizes many job fairs in countries like Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia.

Of course, all the people from and outside of EU can apply through EURES website and look for jobs in Finland.

If you want to make an account on EURES website, and post your CV, go to this link.

Of course, because it is necessary to rent an apartment in Finland if you get a job, refer to this link to get information.

(Telegraf.co.uk)