Youth recruitment subsidy

• Recruitment subsidy can be granted for hiring a young person aged 18–29 who is unemployed and registered as a job seeker at the time the recruitment agreement is made.
• The young person’s municipality of residence must be within the Tampere region employment area.  Area includes the following municipalities: Akaa, Juupajoki, Kangasala, Kuhmoinen, Lempäälä, Nokia, Orivesi, Pirkkala, Pälkäne, Ruovesi, Tampere, Urjala, Valkeakoski, Vesilahti, Virrat and Ylöjärvi.
• The young person must be a registered job seeker in the Tampere region employment area.
• The application for the recruitment subsidy is submitted by a representative of the employer.
• The employer must commit to employing the young person for at least three months.
• The salary paid to the young person must follow the applicable collective agreement. If no collective agreement applies, the employer must pay a normal and reasonable salary.
• An employer may receive the Youth recruitment subsidy for 3–6 months. 
• The subsidy covers 50% of wage costs, up to 1,500 euros per month.
• The subsidy cannot be granted for hiring a young person whose salary costs or recruitment have already been supported with a wage subsidy, recruitment subsidy or municipal supplement, if less than three years have passed since the previous subsidy ended.

• The employer's municipality of residence may be located anywhere in Finland. The young person being hired must have their municipality of residence within the Tampere region employment area and must be a registered job seeker in the area. The employment area municipalities are Akaa, Juupajoki, Kangasala, Kuhmoinen, Lempäälä, Nokia, Orivesi, Pirkkala, Pälkäne, Ruovesi, Tampere, Urjala, Valkeakoski, Vesilahti, Virrat and Ylöjärvi.
• An agreement on the recruitment subsidy is made between the employment authority and the employer.
• The employment authority undertakes to pay the employer 50 percent of the salary costs incurred from employing the young person for a period of 3-6 months, up to a maximum of 1 500 euros per month.
• The employer undertakes to employ the unemployed young person for at least three months in either full-time or part-time employment. The minimum hours for part-time employment are 25 hours a week.
• The conditions relating to the employer and the employment relationship are met.
• The recruitment subsidy for young people is based on a government grant received by the employment authority.

• The employment relationship may not begin until the employer and City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services have signed an agreement on subsidy.
• The employment relationship must last for at least three months.
• The employment relationship may be full-time or part-time, with a minimum of 25 hours per week.
• However, the subsidy is not available for so-called zero-hour contracts or on-call contracts. Furthermore, the subsidy is not available for seasonal, summer, or temporary work.
• An employer can receive subsidy for several employees. There is no limit to the number.
• The subsidy is also available for apprenticeship training.
• Subsidy is not granted if it distorts competition in relation to others offering the same products or services.
• The salary must be in accordance with the collective agreement applicable to the employment relationship in question. If there is no applicable collective agreement, a normal and reasonable salary must be paid.
• Subsidy will not be granted if the employer has substantially neglected its obligations to pay taxes or statutory contributions.
• Subsidy will not be granted if the employer has dismissed employees for production-related or financial reasons in such a way that the employee's notice period has ended within 12 months prior to the application for support and the number of employees has decreased as a result.
• Wage subsidies and recruitment subsidies are not granted for the same employee at the same time.
• Recruitment subsidy will not be granted if the employer has been granted wage subsidy or a municipal supplement for the employment of the same job seeker and less than three years have passed since the end of the support.
• The subsidy is 50% of the wage costs, up to a maximum of 1 500 euros per month and a total of 9 000 euros per young person employed.
• The subsidy only covers wage costs and does not cover ancillary costs related to the employment relationship. The subsidy is granted as de minimis -aid. The subsidy is not granted if the de minimis -aid limit is exceeded. According to the EU regulation, the total amount of aid granted to a single company may not exceed 300 000 euros during any three-year period.
• The following are not included in wage costs:
  • Holiday bonus (lomaraha) or holiday compensation, or any equivalent compensation. If holiday pay for the annual leave period is paid as a holiday bonus according to the applicable collective agreement, a proportion of the holiday bonus corresponding to the annual leave taken during the wage subsidy period may, at the employer’s request, be included in the wage costs.
  • Additional work or overtime compensation, or monetary compensation from a working time bank.
  • Wages for periods during which the employer is entitled to receive, for the wage‑subsidised employee’s wage costs, daily allowance benefits under the Health Insurance Act, rehabilitation allowance under the Act on Rehabilitation Benefits and Rehabilitation Allowance from the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Act, or infectious disease daily allowance under the Health Insurance Act.
  • The portion of wages that is determined on the basis of the wage‑subsidised employee’s work results or depends on the employer’s financial results.
  • Reimbursement of expenses or employment-related benefits.
     

Employer, use the form below to indicate your interest in hiring a young person with the support of the Youth recruitment subsidy. Please fill in the form with the requested information.

Invoicing method and schedule

• Invoicing is done via e-invoice afterwards once per calendar month (unless otherwise agreed).
• All invoices must be received no later than 30 July 2027. Invoices received after this date will not be processed.
• If e‑invoicing is not possible, Monetra’s instructions must be followed.
• Please submit the invoice attachments securely via the e-form.

Invoicing address

City of Tampere, Tampere Region Employment Area
OVT: 0037021167521550
PO Box 5014, 02066 DOCUSCAN
Operator: CGI Suomi Oy (Telia/CGI), ID 003703575029

Payment reference to be indicated on the invoice:

• Cost centre: 155500
• Order number: 29118 / Youth Recruitment Subsidy

The invoice must also clearly indicate at least the following:

• Reference to the agreement (agreement number)
• Billing period
• Name of the employed person

The following documents must be submitted as attachments using the designated e‑form:

• Employment contract (to be submitted with the first invoice)
• Payslip for the invoiced period (to be submitted with each invoice for that billing period)

e-form: Invoice Attachments for the Youth Recruitment Subsidy

Conditions for payment

• Payment requires that the employment contract meets all stipulated conditions (i.e., corresponds to the details provided by the employer when applying for the subsidy) and that employment relationship has not commenced before the contract has been signed.
• The invoice must also comply with section 3 of the agreement concerning salary costs

Payment term

• The e‑invoice falls due 21 days after the receipt of an approved invoice.
• Upon request, the invoicer must provide any additional clarification necessary to verify the legal basis of the invoiced costs.

For further information related to invoicing, please contact: [email protected]

The Youth recruitment subsidy is available until 30 June 2027, subject to available funding.

In practice, this means:

• For employment relationships for which the subsidy is applied for the full six-month period, the employment contract must be signed no later than 31 December 2026, and the employment must start no later than 1 January 2027.
• Subject to available funding, the subsidy may also be granted for employment relationships that begin after 1 January 2027, provided that they meet the subsidy criteria. In such cases, the subsidy can be paid until 30 June 2027 at the latest.
• All invoices must be submitted by 30 July 2027.

Yes. The subsidy can be granted for part-time employment if the employee works at least 25 hours per week.

The employee can begin work once the Youth recruitment subsidy agreement has been signed by both the employer and the Employment Services.

Yes, it can. However, this must be agreed upon by the parties when preparing the Youth recruitment subsidy agreement.

Yes. The person being hired must be 29 years old at the time the agreement is signed.

No. There is no need for payback as the employer invoices the labour authority for the agreed recruitment subsidy retrospectively based on the actual wage costs incurred in accordance with the agreement.