For employers

Finding the right person for the job is often difficult. Töötukassa can help you find suitable staff, and can assist you with the selection of candidates.

Through this service, you as an employer can train an unemployed worker for your vacancy for a limited period of time. Töötukassa enables the apprenticeship if you have a vacancy and fulfilling it requires complementing the skills and knowledge of our clients.

If you need to employ, please send us the data about your vacancy. If you wish to provide apprenticeship as well on this position, please bring it out sending us the data.

Procedure

A wage subsidy is the support paid to an employer for the hiring of an unemployed person. It is designed to support the long-term unemployed, young people, people with reduced capacity for work, recipients of international protection and people who have been released from prison in finding work.

It is a common misconception that people who have to cope with a disability, are difficult to employ and pose more challenges than other employees.

In case you cannot find a suitable employee and persons with required skills are not registered with Töötukassa database of jobseekers, Töötukassa can provide a person with necessary training. Organisation of labour market training is based on the need for labour force in the relevant region and economic trends of different sectors. We provide basic training, retraining and in-service training. Töökassa training shall last for a period of up to one year. We buy training services only from companies holding a training licence.

In case the reason for the stay of an alien (except for the citizens of the EU Member States, member states of the European Economic Area and the Swiss Confederation) in Estonia is employment, this person must have a residence permit for employment.

As part of the My First Job in Estonia package of services, employers can apply for services if a recipient of international protection is already working for them or starts working for them.

Töötukassa provides help to the employee who is made redundant in the form of a redundancy benefit, and counts on your cooperation to be able to provide that help.

When you are faced with the need to fire a large part of your staff, you as an employer have certain obligations towards your employees and towards Töötukassa. Töötukassa helps you to meet these obligations, and makes rapid response services available.

A job creation subsidy is support paid to an employer. Its purpose is to encourage the creation of new jobs in Ida-Viru County. The subsidy is paid to the employer to partially compensate the cost of employees' salaries.

The activities of Töötukassa are financed by contributions from employers and personal contributions from employees, investment revenues, general taxation and from support provided through the European Social Fund.

As an employer, you are responsible for paying the employer contributions, and for collecting the personal contributions that are due by your employees.