Finland Ministerial Working Tender

The Ministerial Working Group for Employment Promotion outlined that most of the personal customer employer and business services currently under the responsibility of TE offices would be transferred to municipalities in 2024. Procurement tasks for these services would also be transferred from ELY centers to municipalities. The state would be responsible for the employment management system and its nationwide functioning.At present the state authorities ie the TE offices the customer service center of the TE administration and the ELY centers organize employment and business services either themselves or procure them in part or in full from service providers.In the TE service reform the municipality will have extensive service responsibility for all customers in its own area. Therefore municipalities would also be transferred to procure services for their future organization. The responsibility of organizing municipalities the range of services and the financing model must form a clear whole. Municipalities must have real opportunities to provide effective services says Minister of Labor Tuula Haatainen who chairs the ministerial working group .The state is ultimately responsible for the workforce. The state would be responsible for the nationwide functioning of the employment management service system such as the information system and the evaluation of the efficiency of municipal employment management. In addition to overall responsibility the state would have a supranational and national coordinating role in service entities that promote nationally significant employment measures together with municipalities. Such service entities would include for example sudden restructuring situations and international recruitment.The ministerial working group will make more detailed guidelines on transition services later in the autumn together with an incentive funding model.