The Act on Social Enterprises

The Act on Social Enterprises came into force 1.1.2004. It was prepared in active and fruitful interaction of the practical actors and disability organisations. The new legislation supports the placement of the disabled and long-term unemployed.

The Ministry of Employment and the Economy renewed the Act in 2007. The central improvements were: amendments to the criteria of calculating the wage subsidies, a person who has right to wage subsidy need not necessarily be referred by labour authorities, a social enterprise can nowadays hire its employees forward to other enterprises and can collect a reimbursement set by itself without loosing the wage subsidies.