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Kela will pay 723 euros a month to parents absent from work due to Covid-19

The Nomad Today 4/8/20

The benefit will also be available to persons arriving in Finland from abroad who have been placed in quarantine-like conditions to combat the pandemic and are therefore away from work without pay.

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Finland needs 10,000 seasonal workers

The Nomad Today 4/8/20

The list of vacancies includes jobs as strawberry picker, tractor driver and greenhouse worker. People coming to the country will be quarantined for a two-week period upon arrival.

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Coronavirus will cost Finnish airports over 100 million euros

The Nomad Today 4/7/20

Air traffic sank by 57.2% in March at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. "And the numbers keep falling," says Finavia.

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Rules for students to apply residence permits during Covid-19 pandemic

The Nomad Today 4/7/20

The backlog is huge at Migri's offices, where applications arrived on 2 September 2019 are currently waiting to be processed. However, this year there was a record number of applicants for study…

Fake cops caught after stealing 32,000 euros from the elderly

The Nomad Today 4/6/20

The suspects managed to steal 32,000 euros from 20 elderly people between 75 and 90 years old, mainly in Vantaa and Helsinki.

Download here the form to apply for unemployment benefits due to coronavirus

The Nomad Today 4/6/20

If you are a member of an unemployment fund, follow their instructions for an earnings-related unemployment allowance. But if you are not, you can apply from the Social Security Institution…

Car sales resist economic slowdown caused by coronavirus

The Nomad Today 4/6/20

The most common passenger car makes first registered in the January to March period were Toyota, Skoda and Volkswagen.

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Terrorist threat at level 2 in Finland

The Nomad Today 4/3/20

Finland's Intelligence Service warns that "exceptional circumstances" such as the coronavirus epidemic "create opportunities for illegal intelligence, cyber espionage and large-scale influencing…

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Kela's phone in Arabic, Somali and Russian reopened during epidemic

The Nomad Today 4/3/20

The Social Security Institution aims to help foreign employees and entrepreneurs who need to apply for example unemployment benefits these hard days. Find in this article the phone numbers for each…

CORONAVIRUS

HSL will refund long season tickets due to Covid-19

The Nomad Today 4/3/20

There will be no processing fee charged for returning the card.

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Fatal traffic accident in Porvoo

The Nomad Today 4/3/20

The police checked more than 46,000 vehicles in the Uusimaa border on Thursday but only 185 of them had to be turned.

An appointment with Migri is not a reason to cross the Uusimaa border

The Nomad Today 4/2/20

Migri has extended the time limit for identification until 31 August 2020.

Police only force 0.5% of cars arriving at Uusimaa border to return

The Nomad Today 4/2/20

The isolation of Helsinki region is more theoretical than real in view of the latest figures published by the Police.

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Government measures to protect laid off employees take effect

The Nomad Today 4/2/20

People who are laid off due to coronavirus epidemic will be entitled to unemployment benefit even if they are engaged in business activities or studies.

Foreigner.fi had over 577,000 pageviews in March

The Nomad Today 4/1/20

Most of the readers are under the age of 35. The type of device most used to access Foreigner.fi was Apple iPhone.

Turnover of large Finnish companies contracted

The Nomad Today 3/31/20

Finland's statistical office emphasized that small business development may differ from large companies.

Campaign calls on companies to donate computers to schoolchildren

The Nomad Today 3/31/20

Amid the coronavirus epidemic, Kaikille kone challenges Finnish companies to donate computers they don't need to schoolchildren for distance learning.