Government Eyes Incentives for Short-Term Jobs
Minister of Social Affairs and Health Sinikka Mönkäre says the state should provide incentives for unemployed people to take short-term jobs. She also argues that pupils should be required to stay in school until they are 18.
In an interview published by the daily Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday, she noted that many decline to take fixed-term jobs for fear of losing their jobless benefits.
Mönkäre said the rules should be changed to make it financially worthwhile to take such jobs -- which she argued are often the only way to re-enter the normal job market. In School till 18?
She said the government is now considering whether the state could afford such incentives, and whether the most effective means would be as a tax break, direct benefit or a reduction in Social Insurance Institution (KELA) fees.
Mönkäre also said she supports the idea of raising the compulsory schooling age from 16 to 18, as well as extending child subsidy payments to parents for two more years. She said this would cut the risk of youth becoming permanently marginalised from education and work.
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