Adjusted job alternation compensation

Working during job alternation leave

The gross earnings from part-time or occasional employment are taken into account in the payment periods of job alternation compensation during which the salary is paid to you. You must inform the fund of your employment as soon as it starts, using a change notification or by using our messages-fuction in Openetti. Inform also on an estimated payment date. When the salary is paid to you, send a copy of your payslip to the Fund.

If you have worked for your own employer, you must provide a certificate from the employer about your working days. You are not entitled to job alternation compensation for such days, but your job alternation leave will be spent and will then continue according to the original agreement. Work done for the same municipality/city is also considered as work for the same employer.

Income from part-time business activities (including ownership of a farm or forest estate) is adjusted, usually on the basis of the tax decision regarding your last confirmed personal taxes and the information in its breakdown. A labour policy statement is always required from the TE Office for business activities, so if you are self-employed or own a farm or forest estate, inform the TE Office of this in advance, before the start of your job alternation leave. If your business activities are full-time, you cannot receive job alternation compensation.

Effect of earned income on job alternation compensation

If your job alternation compensation is 70% of the unemployment allowance, 35% of your gross earnings will reduce the full amount of the job alternation compensation in the payment period.  The standard entitlement is not applied to the adjustment of job alternation compensation.