Integration and family reunification

The international recruitment process must include a plan for bespoke induction and integration support. Also family reunification must be made easier.

Integration

Employees arriving in Finland must be able to participate in integration programmes, which will help them develop both their general and professional language skills and learn about local working life.The current Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration does not stop operators from offering integration services to employment-based immigrants, but in practice they have few of these services available due to a lack of resources.

Therefore, the recruitment process must include a plan for bespoke induction and integration support, with which an employee can acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to live in Finnish society.

Family reunification

Finland’s increasingly strict policies on family reunification have been identified as a hindrance to the immigration of social and health care professionals into the country. The difficulty of family reunification is not helping immigrants integrate or commit to their workplaces. Therefore, family reunification must be made easier as part of the goals of promoting immigration in the social and health care sector.

Training on multiculturalism

Work communities and customers are rapidly becoming more multicultural so Finnish work communities must be provided with training on multiculturalism, and they must be educated on the multiculturalism of both patients and staff members. Two-way integration must be promoted at workplaces, and supervisors must be trained on diversity management.

Employees arriving in Finland must be able to participate in integration programmes, which will help them develop both their general and professional language skills and learn about local working life. Family reunification must be made easier as part of the goals of promoting immigration in the social and health care sector.