Advice and support during changes and dismissal

The employment authority gives employees and employers advice and support when an employment relationship is changed or terminated.

The employment authority helps laid-off and dismissed employees find new work or training in cooperation with employer representatives and staff or their representatives.

Advice and support for employees

You will receive advice and support from the employment authority for job seeking, re-employment and improving your professional competence.

Employees made redundant on production or financial grounds receive support for re-employment already during the period of notice. As a dismissed employee, you will be entitled to paid leave when you draw up an employment plan or participate in labour market training agreed upon in the plan, job-seeking or re-employment training.

Advice and support for employers

The employment authority provides employers with advice in situations where they need adjustment of activities. In most cases, situations refer to measures targeting personnel, such as part-time work, lay-offs or dismissals.

In the event of a change in the employment relationship, the employer has obligations that depend on the number of employees and the number of people to be dismissed or laid off.

The employer is obliged to notify the employment authorities of any redundancies if the redundancies concern at least ten employees. In such a change, the employer must make an action plan that promotes employment and explains how the job search and training of those made redundant will be supported.

The employer must also provide information on the extended change security of employees over 55 years of age.