South Häme employment area offers employment, business and integration services from the beginning of January

The South Häme employment area, or EHTA, will offer employment, economic and integration services from January 2025, when employment and economic services have been transferred from the state to the municipalities. With this TE reform, the state employment and business offices, or TE offices, will be abolished at the end of 2024. The South Häme employment area consists of the city of Riihimäki and the municipalities of Hausjärvi, Janakkala and Loppi.

The employment area also organizes the services of immigrants who are job seekers. The new Integration Act will enter into force at the same time as the TE reform on the 1st of January 2025. From then on, the municipality is responsible for promoting the integration of both unemployed job seekers and those outside the labor force.

EHTA serves customers in four municipalities

The South Häme employment area serves all its customers face-to-face in Riihimäki, Janakkala, Hausjärvi and Loppi, at the following addresses:

• Temppelikatu 2, Riihimäki;
• Torikatu 1, Turenki;
• Keskustie 2–4, Oitti;
• Yhdystie 5, Loppi.

The Riihimäki office is open from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 15 p.m. and the Janakkala office from Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 15 p.m. In order to handle matters at the Hausjärvi and Loppi offices, the customer must make an appointment. You can make an appointment

• by contacting via contact form in Job Market Finland's E-services,
• by sending an email or
• by handling matters face-to-face in the Riihimäki or Janakkala office during their opening hours.

The employment area also serves immigrants in Kotola, Riihimäki, at Eteläinen Asemakatu 2, Riihimäki. Kotola is open from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 15 pm.

All five locations will be closed on Thursday, January 2, 2025. In practice, the employment area will serve customers from Friday, January 3, 2025, when it opens the doors of its Riihimäki office.

You can also handle matters online

Even though the TE offices will be closed down, Job Market Finland, which is familiar to the customers of the TE office, will remain in use. There you will continue to find information, services and open jobs related to working life. Through Job Market Finland, you can log in to, among other things, the E-services, where you can activate your job search.

The staff of the South Häme employment area can also be reached by email. Individual customers can send their messages to the e-mail address asiakaspalvelu@ehtapalvelut.fi, corporate and employer customers to the e-mail address yrityspalvelut@ehtapalvelut.fi, and stakeholders to the e-mail address sidosryhmat@ehtapalvelut.fi. Employees of the employment area will read e-mail messages on January 3, 2025 at the earliest.

In January, the South Häme employment area will also start serving customers by phone. It informs about the start of the telephone service on its website, i.e. Ehtapalvelut.fi.

Disruptions in services are possible

The TE and KOTO reforms are historically extensive, and the municipalities of the South Häme employment area have also prepared and prepared for them in a multidisciplinary manner. Still, various disruptions, outages and delays in services are possible at the beginning of 2025.

- We know that the TE reform is a huge challenge for us. We have been preparing for this change for a long time and tried to ensure that everything goes according to plan at the H-moment, says Anna-Riitta Kujala, Vitality Director of the city of Riihimäki, whose industry the employment area will operate in.

The South Häme employment area strives to correct any problems that arise as quickly as possible and in such a way that they cause as little inconvenience to customers as possible.

- We will do our best to make this change as smooth as possible for our customers. We may serve our customers with a delay at the beginning, but all their affairs will surely be taken care of and sorted out before long, promises Kujala, Vitality Director.