the Controversial unemployment protection, active model, not its name, “activates”, but in practice the unemployment security cutter, find Finland’s largest earner of central organisation SAK query.
Less than a third of SAK’s unemployment fund for the unemployed of the members was able to fill the active model in terms of the current year. One-fifth of the respondents managed to meet the conditions in at least one follow-up period.
more Than a quarter of the unemployed did not fulfil the conditions on time.
a good third of the active model in terms of age of respondents had done paid work and less than a third had participated in the training, coaching or other types of employment service. Only one per cent had acted as an entrepreneur.
SAK:n project manager Saana Siekkinen said that the unemployed is difficult to perceive the active model. For many survey respondents, who were unclear whether they are fulfilled the action is active in the model terms.SAK:n image bank work or services is just not
the Survey respondents report higher reasons for the conditions of full non do the difficulties of the work: either suitable work was not available or unemployed not obtained a job. Next mentioned other reasons and employment services lack.
Also, residence and age contribute to the fact that unemployment has not complied with the conditions.
according to the Survey, especially in Northern Finland, small urban areas and rural activity conditions is difficult.
Also, more than 55-year-olds unemployed, the situation is painful, tell SAK:n unemployment insurance development project manager Saana Siekkinen .
– They feel active in the model as a mere unemployment security section, because they are very difficult to get a job or get services at the moment. For them it is downright stated that they are providing services. They stay aside, Siekkinen said.
in Different parts of Finland have different opportunities to fill the active model in terms of: finding a job or getting employment services. This was warned when the active model came into force in the beginning of the year.
the little place was in the survey, really big differences compared to large cities. There is a big concern, what happens elsewhere than in the big growth centres unemployed people. There would need services urgently, Siekkinen said.
according to the Survey, less well-educated members, elementary school, elementary school or middle school kids, have their unemployment benefit cut for higher educated more often.
Only 7% found a job, TE office
the vast Majority of the work treated of the respondents said they found jobs on their own. They had used their relations or acquaintances for help with finding work, they had been offered directly to work or they had received it from the old job.
Just seven percent report that they’ve had success in your job search YOU-office, although the government is active in the model after the entry into force increased the labor administrative funding and staff resources.
to the TE office does not seem to provide the first more than the overall cv-trainings. Instead, tailor-made courses respondents give thanks. They can help them secure jobs in the future, increase their professional skills or provide work skills, but work for YOU-the office does not seem to actually find any, industry association research manager Anu-Hanna Anttila said.
With the improvement does not help any cosmetics or patch.
research manager Anu-Hanna Anttila, industry association
Is active in the model helped to find more permanent work?
at least Not a full-time job. Industry association 2 700 respondents (switch to another service) just a few that he had obtained a more permanent job, and some of the respondents will make a more permanent basis to part-time or seasonal work, Anttila says.
according to Anttila, short työkeikkojen and part-time work making rather adapt to shred and work with.
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When the unemployment is prolonged, also the hopelessness is rising.
project manager Saana Siekkinen, SAK
No surprise that three quarters of the respondents were of the opinion that cutting the benefits will not activate the unemployed job search or employment services.
the Open responses according to the unemployed persons experience the active in the model, as a punishment, Fenomenbet time-consuming bureaucracy and dehumanising actions.
in replies arise humiliate, bully and stressful feelings. Respondents felt that active in the model do the hard work, and help employed on a more permanent basis, Anttila describes.
Must the activity conditions or not?
the SAK:n the unemployment fund for members of the active model is difficult to understand.
the tithe for the survey respondents was unclear whether they even get to fill the active model in terms.
a Little less than one-third again did not know, how many activity cycles she has during the year been. Saana Siekkinen view of the active model has a complicated unemployment insurance system further.
the Model is not a simple. Is different dates and constraints, such as the 65 day monitoring period and monthly apply for unemployment benefits. It is difficult for people to perceive the model, Saana Siekkinen notes.
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the longer the unemployment period will be stretched, the harder it is to fill the active model in terms.
When a member of an unemployment fund had been unemployed for months to half a year, more than a third of them still managed to fill the active model in terms. Ten months of unemployment after the conditions have all or even a single period, no longer about a quarter of the respondents.
responses to emerge and humiliate, bully and stressful feelings.
research manager Anu-Hanna Anttila, industry association
finally, it is telling that less than a third of the unemployed believed employment during the year, although unemployment has decreased in the last couple of years.
When unemployment is prolonged, also the hopelessness is rising. Think beginning to end, Siekkinen sighs.
a Quarter of respondents again believed their own employment opportunities.
active model, to bury
the Survey respondents agree that the most urgent problem of active model is that, independent of a job despite the unemployment benefits will be cut.
the Board convened by the tripartite working group is currently considering the active model in the number one conditions and also active in model two, i.e. self-motivated job-search model implementation.
it’s hard for People to perceive the model.
project manager Saana Siekkinen, SAK
the industry association research manager Anu-Hanna Anttila is, however, not an active model in the filings to help, but the whole model is dead and create the space for something else.
Things to improve doesn’t help any cosmetics or patch. This labour government and the unemployed created the conditions of the network, instead should create a model where people of different realities, Anttila said.
the SAK has proposed that every unemployed person should do a personal employment plan, which he agreed in the next few months measures, such as training and other employment services.
the Survey of nearly 6 000 industrial association and the SAK:n other sectors of the unemployment fund members. Respondents were unemployed when the survey was done in October and November.
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