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Career counselling can help you to make career-related decisions and plan your career. It covers topics related to learning, jobs and career choices. 

Career counsellors work in every department of the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund. Career counselling is open to all and the service is free of charge for everyone.. 

Book an appointment for a counselling session in the e-Labour Fund or call the Unemployment Insurance Fund office to make an appointment.

Read more about career planning on the Unemployment Insurance Fund's career portal. 

Estonian Refugee Council organises training on How to become an entrepreneur in Estonia. Training provides an overview of the Estonian labour market’s current situation, the labour law, the current trends in the Estonian labour market and also informs about the institutions which support the employee who enters the labour market or helps them in case of legal questions. The training also covers the Unemployment Insurance Fund (Töötukassa) and career opportunities on the Estonian labour market. 

The entrepreneurship training will focus on topics related to starting a business, such as possible forms of entrepreneurship, legislation and the Estonian tax system. It will explain what grants are available for starting a business and introduce the e-Tax Board.

Read more about Estonian Refugee Assistance training courses here. 

The Estonian Labour Disputes Committee deals with the resolution of labour disputes by neutrally hearing all parties. The reasons for referring a dispute to the Commission are disagreements that people are unable to resolve between themselves, such as loss of pay, dismissal, etc. The Labour Disputes Committees carefully consider all the evidence presented, whether it is witness statements, documents, evidence of inspection findings.

Help in contacting the Labor Inspectorate and the Labor Dispute Commission can be provided by the Prevention and Victim Helpline. 

More information can be found here.

Exploitation at work is forcing a worker to work in violation of the rules on working time and rest time and knowingly giving the worker false information about working conditions. Non-payment of agreed wages is a common form of labour exploitation. 

Exploitation also includes limiting a worker's freedom of movement or constantly controlling the worker's mobility, social isolation, such as denying or limiting contact with loved ones and preventing the worker from seeking help, physical or sexual violence, intimidation and threats, such as threatening to refuse to pay wages or to hand them over to the authorities, taking identity and travel documents and holding them in one's possession. 

Human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation or forced labour refers to abusive activities that result in the worker being placed in a forced situation with poor working conditions, long working hours and pay below the national threshold (underpayment), poor or even dangerous working conditions, and little or no opportunity to change the situation. Forced labour refers to any work or service that a person is forced to do against his or her will, under threat or in fear of punishment..

Read more about labour exploitation on the Labour Inspectorate's website.

If you have any doubts about whether your workplace is treating you fairly and legally, find out more about workplace exploitation on the Support for Victims website.

If you feel that you have been exposed to fraudulent job offers, labour exploitation or have been lured into committing a crime, you can get help from the Prevention and Victim Helpline counsellor on  (+372) 660 7320 (Mon-Fri 9-17) or call their crisis line (+372) 116 006 (24/7). You can also contact them by email at inimkaubandus@sotsiaalkindlustusamet.ee or on Facebook.

You can write to the police about your concerns at:  thb.info@politsei.ee. 

Read more about human trafficking on the Criminal Policy website. 

In order to support the integration and continued employment of beneficiaries of international protection, the employer is paid a fee for mentoring the beneficiary in the workplace and is reimbursed the costs of translation services related to the beneficiary's entry, qualification and employment.

The fee is paid and the costs are reimbursed if the employer employs a beneficiary of international protection for an indefinite period or with an employment contract of at least four months who has lived in Estonia for less than five years.

Employers can apply to the Unemployment Fund for payment of a job mentoring fee if an international protection beneficiary working for the employer needs job coaching.

The cost of interpretation or translation services related to the employment of the beneficiary of international protection (e.g. documents related to employment) is reimbursed as translation costs.

Reimbursement of the costs related to obtaining a professional qualification, certificate of competence, certificate or document certifying the right to drive a motor vehicle and incurred on behalf of the staff member: fees for the pre-examination consultation, the examination and the certificate applied for, including state fees.

The terms and conditions and more information are available on the Unemployment Insurance Fund's website.