SAK Would Maintain the Unemployment Benefit Cut – Also Proposes Significant Relief

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SAK is prepared to maintain the earnings-related unemployment benefit cutter, the gradation of support after a certain period of unemployment.

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– It is shameless that losing a job now leads directly to poverty, says Saana Siekkinen. The Confederation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK proposes improvements to earnings-related unemployment benefits,

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The Confederation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) is proposing a new calculation model for earnings-related unemployment benefits, which would improve earnings-related unemployment benefits, especially for low-income earners. In SAK's model, for example, the earnings-related unemployment benefit for an unemployed person earning 2,500 euros would increase by 185 euros from the current 1,520 euros. The labour market organisation justifies the propos…