An enhanced unemployment benefits scheme offered to older employees could make it harder to achieve Finland’s employment target according to the chairman of the Finnish Confederation of Professionals (STTK). He referred to the so-called ‘pensión pipeline’ scheme through which older workers who become unemployed can claim enhanced unemployment benefits through to early retirement. The arrangement is seen as a key reason for lower employment rates among older workers, and is now under threat as the government looks for ways to raise total employment rates.
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