Transferring from a salaried employee to an independent professional/entrepreneur

The individual professional/entrepreneur members of Akava Special Branches have basically the same member benefits salaried employee members. The only thing lacking is membership in the unemployment fund.


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Change of membership type




Information about trade name/company

Branch information

Membership fees

Individual professionals pay an annual fee, which includes the protection time for the employee fund membership fee as stated in the Act on Unemployment Security.




Membership in the unemployment fund

An individual professional may preserve the protection time for membership in the employee fund as stated in the Act on Unemployment Security. After this, the individual professional may not be a member of the employee fund, but can instead, if desired, apply for membership in the Unemployment Fund for Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed AYT. An individual professional may also apply for AYT membership as soon as he or she has begun working as an individual professional.



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