Allowance when laid off

When you are laid off for at least one calendar week (Mon – Sun) at a time, the lay-off is considered full-time. During a full-time lay-off, you can receive a full allowance for the lay-off days.

Example 1: You are laid-off from Monday to Thursday. The lay-off doesn´t last a full calendar week, so it isn´t a full-time lay-off, but a lay-off for a shortened work week.

Example 2: You are laid-off from Tuesday to Monday of the following week. The lay-off lasts a week, but not a full calendar week (Mon – Sun), so it isn’t a full-time lay-off, but a lay-off for a shortened work week. 

Example 3: You are laid-off from Monday to Sunday. The lay-off lasts exactly one calendar week, so it is a full-time lay-off.  

Example 4: You are laid-off from Tuesday 6.8.2024 for two week, i.e. until Monday 19.8.2024. The lay-off period includes one full calendar week (12. – 18.8.2024), so it is a full time lay-off.  

When you during a calendar week (Mon – Sun) work 1 – 4 full working days and are fully laid off the rest of days, the lay-off is considered to be a lay-off for a shortened work week. During a lay-off for a shortened work week, you can receive a full allowance for the lay-off days, if the working time you work during the lay-off week is a maximum of 80% of full working time of the week. Working hours are reviewed on a calendar week basis based on the actual hours you have worked.

Example 1: You are laid-off from Tuesday to Thursday. The lay-off doesn´t last a full calendar week, so it is a lay-off for a shortened work week. The hours you have worked during Monday and Friday don´t exceed 80% of full working time of the week, so a full benefit is paid for the lay-off days.

Example 2: You are laid-off for 3 weeks so that you work full-time on Mondays and Tuesdays and are laid-off from Wednesday to Sunday. The lay-off is considered to be a lay-off for a shortened work week. The hours you work during Mondays and Tuesdays don’t exceed 80% of full working time of the week, so a full benefit is paid for the lay-off days.

When, as a result of lay-off, your daily working hours have been reduced from normal, the lay-off is considered to be a lay-off for a shortened work day. During a lay-off for a shortened work day, you can receive an adjusted daily allowance for the duration of the lay-off, the amount of which is influenced by the wage income paid during the four-calendar-week or monthly adjustment period. A condition for receiving the daily allowance is that the number of working hours on which paid wages are based during the adjustment period don’t exceed 80 % of the full working hours for the adjustment period. 

Example 1: You normally work 7,5 hours a day 5 days a week. You are laid-off for period 1.8. – 30.9.2021 so that your daily working hours are 5 hours a day, i.e. 25 hours a week. The lay-off is considered to be a lay-off for a shortened work day.

You are paid for a total of 110 hours of work for both August and Septemper (5 hours/day x 22 days = 110 hours). Salary is paid once a month, on the last day of the month. You can receive an adjusted allowance for period 1. – 31.8. and 1. – 30.9. In the adjustment of the daily allowance, the earnings paid during the calendar month are taken into account.

When you, as a result of lay-off, work during a calendar week both part-time days and full-time days AND are laid-off for full days, your lay-off includes features of both a shortened workday and a shortened workweek. In this case, the lay-off is said to been carried out as a mixed lay-off.

The handling process during a mixed lay-off depends on how your lay-off has been implemented during your first daily allowance application. If your lay-off has already been implemented as a mixed lay-off during your first application, your application will be processed as if you are on a lay-off for a shortened work day. Therefore, working hours will be reviewed per adjustment period. If, at the start of the lay-off, you were only laid off for a shortened work week, working hours will be reviewed on a calendar week basis until the end of the lay-off.

If you during lay-off work for another employer or you have income from self-employment or agriculture or forestry, the income you receive will be taken into account in the amount of your daily allowance.

Read more about adjusted allowance.