Minister: Govt to dismantle contentious activation model “as quickly as possible”

Minister: Govt to dismantle contentious activation model

Aino-Kaisa Pekonen has served as leader of the Left Alliance parliamentary group since 2015. Newly-minted Social Affairs and Health Minister Aino-Kaisa Pekonen has issued assurances that the new government is already taking steps to roll back the highly unpopular activation model introduced by the previous administration to get unemployed people into jobs. The plan was part of the previous government’s ambition to reform the labour market and boost the employment rate to 72 percent, a target it achieved at the end of last year .

The scheme required the unemployed to either enrol in a training programme, bill a minimum […]

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