Employment and Economic Development Offices (TE Offices) are responsible for the employment of immigrant jobseekers and for employment and business services supporting immigrant integration. TE Offices are also responsible for ensuring that the services are suitable for immigrants.
TE Offices are responsible for preparing
- initial assessments and
- integration plans for their customers registered as jobseekers and
- for referring them to integration training.
In addition to measures specifically promoting integration, immigrants can also use all other TE services intended for personal customers.
TE Offices provide the following services:
- Employment services
- Information and advisory services
- Expert assessments:
- competence and vocational skills assessments
- assessment of work ability
- assessments of entrepreneurial skills and prerequisites for entrepreneurial activity
- initial assessments for immigrants
- other expert assessments
- Vocational guidance and career planning
- Coaching:
- job search coaching
- career coaching
- job coaching
- Experiment:
- training trial
- work try-out
- Labour market training:
- vocational labour market training
- integration training
- Independent studies supported through unemployment benefits
- Pay subsidy
- Services for starting up and developing a business:
- start-up grants
- business development services.
Municipalities will offer employment services starting from 1 January 2025
The responsibility for organising TE services will be transferred from the central government to municipalities on 1 January 2025. The reform aims to create a service structure that promotes the rapid employment of jobseekers by utilising all opportunities offered by municipal services. Despite the transfer of the responsibility for organising services, the central government has the ultimate responsibility for the labour force.
Services will be transferred to municipalities or employment areas consisting of several municipalities that have an employment base of at least 20,000 persons. The municipalities forming an employment area must border each other and form a well-functioning area in terms of the labour market and employment.
In addition to financing labour market support, municipalities will also contribute to the financing of basic unemployment allowance and earnings-related unemployment allowance in future. A jobseeker who finds work in the open labour market will benefit the municipality in the form of lower expenditure on unemployment benefits.
Municipalities will offer all employment services in Finland starting from 1 January 2025.
Read more:
Initial assessment
Integration plan
Integration training for immigrants
Information for integration participants using the services of TE Offices
Services for personal customers at TE Offices (in Finnish)
