The article is in Finnish. But TL;DR of what’s coming:
**How the government wants to change the status of foreign workers**
* If a person working in Finland with a work-based residence permit ends their employment, they would have three months to find a new job. * Specialists, start-up entrepreneurs, company directors and workers who have been in Finland for more than two years with a work-based residence permit would have six months to find a job. * If no new job is found, the person would have to leave the country. * The government’s proposal applies to work-based residence permits, but not to permanent residence permits, family-based permits or EU citizens. * Currently, a worker with a residence permit for an employee in Finland can change employers in the same sector for which the permit has been issued, but not in another sector. * In the future, the same permit would also allow a worker to apply for work in sectors that have been identified as labour shortages in Finland as a whole. * For other sectors, a new residence permit would have to be applied for as at present.
Translated from the article using DeepL.
Idiotic
I came here for studies and found work a month after graduation. I switched jobs once while working that job and then that job did a mass layoff. I was unemployed for one month before finding work. I’ve now been at that job for 2 years and hate working there. Have been applying elsewhere for the last 2 years and haven’t even gotten an interview.
The job market right now is completely shit. For them to pass something like this at this point in time is them trying to take advantage of a current poor economic situation to do their bidding. It’s like all these companies doing a return to office in order to generate layoffs.
As a Brit with a second home in Finland it’s actually refreshing to read about politicians that are looking at the data and deciding whats in the best interests for the natives, not the other way around.
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The article is in Finnish. But TL;DR of what’s coming:
**How the government wants to change the status of foreign workers**
* If a person working in Finland with a work-based residence permit ends their employment, they would have three months to find a new job.
* Specialists, start-up entrepreneurs, company directors and workers who have been in Finland for more than two years with a work-based residence permit would have six months to find a job.
* If no new job is found, the person would have to leave the country.
* The government’s proposal applies to work-based residence permits, but not to permanent residence permits, family-based permits or EU citizens.
* Currently, a worker with a residence permit for an employee in Finland can change employers in the same sector for which the permit has been issued, but not in another sector.
* In the future, the same permit would also allow a worker to apply for work in sectors that have been identified as labour shortages in Finland as a whole.
* For other sectors, a new residence permit would have to be applied for as at present.
Translated from the article using DeepL.
Idiotic
I came here for studies and found work a month after graduation. I switched jobs once while working that job and then that job did a mass layoff. I was unemployed for one month before finding work. I’ve now been at that job for 2 years and hate working there. Have been applying elsewhere for the last 2 years and haven’t even gotten an interview.
The job market right now is completely shit. For them to pass something like this at this point in time is them trying to take advantage of a current poor economic situation to do their bidding. It’s like all these companies doing a return to office in order to generate layoffs.
As a Brit with a second home in Finland it’s actually refreshing to read about politicians that are looking at the data and deciding whats in the best interests for the natives, not the other way around.