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Sat, 05 Sep, 2015 12:08:40 AM
FTimes – STT Report, Sep 5
 
Minister of Economic Affairs Olli Rehn , Justice and Labour Minister Jari Lindström at a press conference spoke on the unemployment reform in Helsinki on Friday. Photo – Lehtikuva.
A draft on tightening up the terms of job alternation leave will be presented by the government in the near future, the Ministry of Employment and the Economy confirmed on Friday.
 
The draft on the tightening of the terms is part of the government's top priority areas which aims to fast track acceptance of jobs, dismantling of welfare trap and shortening periods of unemployment.
 
Justice and Labour Minister Jari Lindström, Economic Affairs Minister Olli Rehn and the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment, Kimmo Tiilikainen were on Friday engaged in presentation of the concerned top priority projects in their respective areas.
 
According to the ministers, reform on the unemployment benefit policies will be ready in October. The report on welfare trap and inclusive social security model will be completed by the end of next year.
 
The government is also looking to support the parties in working life in the creation of agreements on local bargaining workplace practices. The draft on promotion of local workplace practices will be prepared by the middle of October.
 
The proposals are expected to come into force in 2016.
 
The reform of the Working Hours Act and the Annual Holidays Act is set to continue until 2018.
 
In terms of tackling the narrow funding of growing businesses, the government plans to utilise, among other things, EU funding programmes, capitalising growth funds as well as a planned interim financial instrument.
 
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