mployment benefits.
             The right to labour market services and state unemployment benefits is enjoyed, as a rule, by permanent residents of Estonia under conditions established by law. According to the Law on Social protection of the Unemployed, a person is registered as being unemployed within ten working days after going to the state employment office if he/she satisfies following conditions:
             · is between 16 years old and the retirement age;
             · is unoccupied with work or an equivalent activity;
             · has been occupied or an equivalent activity for at least 180days during the 12 months preceding the appearance at the state employment office; no preceding employment is required of those who reader a disabled child or a child under 7 years of age, persons in hospital treatment, who nurse a sick, disabled or elderly persons, are in disability group or were under arrest served time in penal institutions;
             · has submitted all documents necessary for registration.
             By way of exception, a 60 day waiting period precedes the awarding of unemployment benefits in Estonia to persons who have:
             · studied in an educational institution as a full time student before registering as unemployed;
             · resigned from their last job on their own free will, and not because of illness, disability, nursing a sick or disabled person, or entering national defence forces;
             · dismissed due to violation of a labour contract, breach of trust or an undignified act.
             Engaged in activities equivalent to employment are persons who:
             · work on the basis of labour, services or civil services contract, or membership;
             · study at educational institutions full time;
             · serve in national defence forces.
             A job seeker in Estonia is one who willingly registers himself/herself at the state employment office and wants to get full-time job im
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