„Zutiefst problematisch“ – Experten kritisieren Finnlands Pläne für ein Integrationsmodell mit Zuckerbrot und Peitsche

This sucks, but well… People have never been and will never be equal.
Plus ppl just sitting here without work, be it their fault or not / immigrant or not, are draining the funds.

So it is just sensible that we dont take MORE of those ppl in.

I’m guessing that this is basically for the spouses of other immigrants who are coming to work or study.

It’s well worn territory but it’s crazy to me that a person can move to Finland to study and their spouse can move over with them, and claim unemployment benefits when pretty much everyone involved knows that the spouse will never be able to find a job in Finland.

What’s up with Yle making a basic common sense actually sound bad and putting misleading titles? Of course someone who has not contributed yet cannot just randomly receive unemployment benefits. The system would collapse.

I’ve got a friend who is a nurse (studied and graduated in Finland) who just quit his job yesterday and is going to leave Finland permanently for Ireland next month. The reason particularly is stress from „work“. He works in an aged care facility in Töölö. He said that the tasks and duties per se are okay but the micro aggressions he receives constantly about not speaking the language properly is the straw that broke the camel’s back. We belong to the same profession and I can attest that what he said is accurate. I experienced being bullied at work because of my poor language skills. Sometimes I kind of wonder what people expect when one is from another country and was hired to work in Finland and have been staying for example one year to two years only and be expected to be speaking Finnish like a local? Yes we do have a 6 month training before deployment but that is not enough. Unfortunately he was not the first of our circle of friends who migrated to Finland and later left. If I count friends who took off I’d say 3 already. This is only from my friends, i can also hear from friends of my friends that there are also defections from them. Not to mention the current changes in immigration and low salary in the healthcare field immigrants are leaving in droves. If this is the aim of the current government, well I think they are very successful. Even me is contemplating leaving.

I don’t see the problem? If you immigrate and then neither do not work then why should you be entitled to the same benefits as people who pay taxes (immigrant or native)? It seems like a basic concept of the social contract that if you do not contribute in any way to the community then you should receive less from the community.

It works the same way in Denmark: you don’t have access to certain benefits until you have earned permanent residence, which is mostly earned by working or studying. You can still pay your own unemployment insurance like most Danes do of course, but you don’t get access to the “kontanthjælp” unemployment subsidy for example (it’s money the state gives if you are looking for work through a job center and have no other means), and even if you are European you need to work 10-12 hours per week to earn student subsidies.

all I see are sticks, not a single damn carrot.

Love how nobody in the comments seems to have read the actual article.