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    Purra proposes mandatory work tied to social benefits for immigrants


    Minister of Finance Riikka Purra (ps) suggests immigrants to get obligatory work related to social security. According to Purra, obligatory work could be for example "cleaning or picking up trash, that don’t take away anyone’s real work. "

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    4. Mr-DragonSlayer on

      People who say this is a bad idea and comparing it to whatever labour camps I’ve seen it compared to:

      1. Just have a raging hate-boner for anything right-wing.

      2. Need to take a look at Denmark’s system, which is largely based on this exact same idea, so at least seemingly from my research, this isn’t some new idea.

    5. movesfast on

      Why do we have to be so indirect saying we dont want immigrants, and then it doesnt work and we have to say things like that ?

    6. Superb_Wafer_2710 on

      By immigrants what does she refers to? Ppl without permanent resident permit or anyone which has tenporarly permit also permanent permit as well as citizenship? What is immigrant in terms of technical part, can you be called an immigrant if u arrived let say 10y ago and now hold citizenship? Will it affect these ppl?

    7. lukkoseppa on

      Why stop there, she could even build little.villages for them to stay in. The tall fences are only to keep the wildlife out.

    10. _gurgunzilla on

      I see this as a relatively bad idea which would only create more pressure in the workplaces if you have to babysit someone who has no skills, can’t understand the language etc. in addition to doing your own job. I think people suggesting things like this don’t have real life working experience at all. Poorly motivated and trained workforce will only diminish work quality.

    12. Helpful-Finding-2237 on

      I don’t understand why a finance minister is chasing immigrant on every step possible. How can anyone ignore this fact?

    13. CommunicationOld8587 on

      Headline is clickbait: the real suggestion here is to tie social benefits of non-citizens to work history. If a person is too long without work, benefits would end. Even payless work would be considered

    19. levyseppakoodari on

      System like this was already in place around 1960’s. It targeted citizens instead of immigrants and it was cancelled because the cost of running the system far exceeded the benefits gained.

    22. weirdbackpackguy on

      I propose people who say they’d like to shoot people should be jailed without pay instead of put to parliament.

    24. Luckriel on

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      finally! and if this idea tastes bad, return to your own country. leechin’ has its limit.

    25. neityght on

      To whatever idiot unlocked this locked post and said as the reason, “she said it, why lock”, the reason was, if you had bothered to check the logs, is because it’s been fuckin reposted three times and it would be nice to make some attempt to keep this sub a little bit tidy and free of reposts. This is exactly why the every user is a mod idea often doesn’t work, because people don’t even fuckin bother following sub rules and when posts get locked they’re all like oh why lock it.

      So since one user can only interact with a post once if anyone else cares about keeping this sub free from reposts of the same shit then please lock it. And to the idiot who unlocked it, well I won’t say what I think of your reading comprehension for fear of getting banned or some shit.

    26. Oxu90 on

      So a forced employment below minimal income. There is no job that wouldn’t take away anybody’s real work.

      If the job is worth doing, it is worth be paid salary. If a company etc can get free forced employees from state, they have no need to actually pay anybody to do it.

      Stupid idea

    27. Guilty_Order6127 on

      We already have kuntouttava työtoiminta, which is basically an example of free labour. I’m long-term unemployed and I attended a recycling centre through it, and I actually liked it a lot. I thought I could even work there full time (I have disabilities that limit the jobs I can do), but of course that isn’t possible because they won’t hire anyone – why pay someone for something others come to do for free?