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A supermarket in Espoo. Photo: Foreigner.fi.

Finland

IN SEPTEMBER

Fear of unemployment worsens Finnish consumer confidence

The Nomad Today 9/28/20

There was also more personal threat of unemployment experienced by employed consumers.

World

REFERENDUM

Switzerland rejects curbing immigration from EU countries

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/28/20

Nearly two thirds of voters felt that scrapping the Swiss-EU deal on free movement would exacerbate the shortage of skilled workers and would endanger Switzerland's wealth.

22 September 2020, Spain, Outeiro de Rei: A worker of the US aluminium maker company Alcoa takes part in a protest at the A-6 highway near of the village of Outeiro de Rei as they ask their company to sell its plant in A Marina to GFG Alliance Group. Photo: Carlos Castro/dpa.

Coronavirus

REPORT

UN: World's workers lost a tenth of their income during pandemic

The Nomad Today 9/23/20

Workers in developing and emerging countries are more affected by the pandemic than richer countries because they have fewer opportunities to work remotely and because the informal labour sector…

Finland

15 MILLION EURO PLAN

Government takes action against "growing" undeclared work

The Nomad Today 9/23/20

It is particularly common in labour-intensive industries, such as the construction , restaurant and cleaning sectors. In the Eurobarometer survey in autumn 2019, almost 25% of the…

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Finland

OFFICIAL FIGURES

Finland had 329,700 unemployed jobseekers at the end of August

The Nomad Today 9/22/20

The unemployment rate was 7.7%, or 1.6 percentage points higher than the previous year, according to the Labour Force Survey issued by Statistics Finland.

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Finland

WORK IN FINLAND

15 occupations with the highest and lowest demand for labour

The Nomad Today 9/18/20

The government's latest Occupational Barometer identifies 31 labour-shortage occupations.

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Finland

RECESSION

Finland's job vacancy rate nearly halved amid Covid-19 restrictions

The Nomad Today 9/15/20

In the second quarter, the country's job vacancy rate fell to 1.5%, down from 2.8% in the previous quarter.

28 July 2020, Hamburg: Sex workers hold signs and placards during a demonstration in Herbertstrasse against the lockdown of the brothels due to the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Photo: Daniel Reinhardt/dpa

World

Sex work to resume in north Germany as prostitutes win court battles

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/8/20

Sex workers will be required to keep contact lists in order to track potential chains of infection and must meet clients only by appointment.

FILED - 04 July 2011, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Karlsruhe: Euro coins lie on a Euro flag. The rate of inflation in the 19 countries of the eurozone recuperated slightly to 0.4 per cent in July, according to a first estimate from EU statistical office Eurostat. Photo:Uli Deck/dpa.

Economy & Business

Eurozone inflation falls into negative territory, unemployment rises

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/1/20

15.2 million people in the EU, including 12.8 million in the euro area, were out of work in July. Women in the eurozone were hit slightly harder on the labour market.

seasonal work Lingon berry pickers by Lena Svensson Pixabay

Finland

GOVERNMENT DECISION

Restrictions on the entry of berry pickers from certain countries

The Nomad Today 8/27/20

This change will not affect, for example, the possibility for Thai berry pickers to enter Finland.

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Finland

BUSINESS

Finnair to cut 1,000 jobs despite €700 million state aid

The Nomad Today 8/25/20

The announcement came exactly three months after the Finnish Parliament approved public aid to save the airline within its third supplementary budget for 2020.

Finland

GOVERNMENT FIGURES

Finland has 118,500 unemployed jobseekers more than a year ago

The Nomad Today 8/25/20

At the end of July, the number of people laid off was 100,000 in the whole country; a year-on-year increase of 83,900.

Finland

LABOUR MARKET

Job vacancies fell 30% in the toughest months of the pandemic

The Nomad Today 8/18/20

Open job vacancies decreased particularly in the major region of Helsinki-Uusimaa. Employers estimated that 44% of these positions were hard-to-fill.

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Finland

OFFICIAL FIGURES

Unemployment rose sharply in June

The Nomad Today 7/21/20

The number of unemployed jobseekers increased by 162,700 year-on-year. The unemployment rate was 7.9%, or 1.8 percentage points higher than the previous year.

Finland

IMMIGRATION SCAM SUSPECTED

"Sanal Edamaruku spoiled our dream of a better life in Finland"

The Nomad Today 7/11/20

Prameela Devi claims to have been a victim of human trafficking by Sanal Edamaruku, a prominent Indian citizen who heads the Rationalists International organization in Helsinki.