Amid old issues of integration and isolation, the growing threat of labour exploitation is now emerging. 

In Finland, over 50% of employees are members of a trade union. Via collective agreements, shop stewards and work life experts, unions help make sure you have fair working conditions.

The collective spirit goes hand in hand with a trust of those around you. It’s on this trust that for example Finnish working life is built; mutual trust allows for a low hierarchy and an understanding of the benefits of a good work life balance, writes TEK's Owain Hopeaketo.

Each badge therefore has its own story. Eventually a badge becomes one piece of a whole at the hands of a clumsily sewing, or lazily glueing, student.

Finland and Finnish employers can perhaps do little to change global events. What they can do is ensure the system here protects immigrated experts in situations when it is their previous world affecting them, not their life in Finland.

The second stage of the citizenship laws links unemployment benefit usage and the acquiring of citizenship. Owain Hopeaketo discusses the facts of the change and the personal impacts it will have.