Useful websites

Here are some useful website for foreigners working in Finland:

SAK
The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions

Finnish immigration service
This site gives you information on immigration principles and practices applied in Finland. The Finnish Immigration Service was called Directorate of Immigration before year 2008.

Employment and Economic Development office
This site gives you information on employment office services and guidance for persons seeking work in Finland

Info Bank
This site gives you a lot of information in fifteen languages about moving to Finland, permits, accommodation, finnish language, work, education, health, etc.

Labour protection
Facts about the The Finnish labour and occupational safety legislation.

Labour start
Where trade unionists start their day on the net.

The Ombudsman for Minorities
The Ombudsman for Minorities is an authority with the basic task of advancing the status and legal protection of ethnic minorities and foreigners as well as equality, non-discrimination and good ethnic relations in Finland.

In To
In To is the service point of the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela) and the Finnish Tax Administration for those coming to work in Finland. It gives advice and instructions to those moving to the Helsinki Metropolitan Area about the matters that first arise on coming to Finland.