What are suspension days?

Suspension days are a fine from the RAV (Regional Employment Centers). If you violate the duties of cooperation and harm reduction, the RAV will cancel some daily allowances as a penalty, even though all other requirements are still met. 

When are suspension days imposed?

You will be fined suspension days if you:

• are unemployed through your own fault
• do not make sufficient efforts to find reasonable work
• do not follow the instructions of the RAV, i.e. do not accept a reasonable job, do not take up or drop out of a labour market measure without an excuse
• fail to provide information or breach your duty to report to the employment office
• unlawfully obtain or attempt to obtain unemployment benefit.

Number of suspension days

The suspension is 1 to 60 days, depending on the fault. The following applies:

• 1 to 15 days for slight fault
• 16 to 30 days for moderate fault
• 31 to 60 days for serious fault

These are working days. If 60 suspension days are imposed, you have to manage without unemployment benefit for about three months.

In the case of a repeat offence, the suspension period will be longer and you will be examined to see whether you are employable.

Only days on which you fulfil all «conditions for entitlement» count as passed recruitment days.