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Finnish Engineers via their worker Union seek to press for limited short-term work permits

Monday, 03 June 2013
Finland is seeing astronomical rise in unemployment in the IT sector and for this reason the Union of Professional Engineers in Finland are calling for a limit on the number of foreign specialists allowed to work in Finland.

The view is that Finland to retract from the old model whereby persons entering Finland for work generally find it easier to obtain short-term three-month work permits if the authorities deem them to be professionals or specialists. According to the engineers’ union, the current definition is too loose and threatens to take jobs away from Finns.

This above has been the approach used in many years when the Finnish authorities tried to tempt top notch talent from other countries by cutting through the red tape required to get a work permit.

However, after heavy layoffs in the sector led by some of its leading employers Nokia, engineers now want these rules tightened.

By Scancomark.com Team

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