Month-straddling temp work needs two contracts and two register entries

A registered unemployed person may work up to eight days at the end of September and up to eight more days at the start of October without losing their status.TootukassaTootukassa Töötukassa counts tööamps days per calendar month, so a person can work as many as eight days in September and as many as eight days in October. The same page keeps the statutory frame: temporary work during registered unemployment means working under an employment contract, a contract for services, or in public service with a one-off duration of no more than eight days, and a person may do such work on up to eight days per calendar month in at most twelve calendar months within any twenty-four-month windowRiigiteataja.

The month boundary does not stretch a single stint — it requires splitting the paperwork. Two separate contracts must be concluded and two separate entries made in the töötamise register, one for the September work and one for the October work.Tootukassa This is stricter than the page's old position, under which a register entry alone was said to satisfy the eight-days-per-month conditionTootukassa. Employers who run one continuous engagement across the turn of the month on a single contract and a single entry carry the risk that the whole spell is read as one stint exceeding eight days.Tootukassa

Pay must stay inside the cap in each month. The remuneration for temporary work in one calendar month in total, and for each one-off stint, may not exceed 40 percent of the monthly minimum wage set under Töölepingu seadus § 29 lg 5 for the current calendar year.Riigiteataja The updated answer repeats the point for the split-month case: the pay must remain within the permitted limit. Where pay for several months is settled in one posterior payment and the total exceeds the monthly allowance, the employer needs a certificate showing the pay did not breach the limit month by monthTootukassa; with that evidence, registration does not endTootukassa.

A single stint that merely straddles the boundary is treated differently. Where temporary work starts in one month and ends in the next and lasts eight days in total — the page gives 29 May to 4 June with 250 euros gross as the example — the person is counted as working three days in May and four in June, but the whole remuneration is attributed to May, the month the stint beganTootukassa. That attribution rule is why the new two-contract answer matters: two genuinely separate stints keep each month's days and pay in their own month, while one undivided stint pulls all the pay into the starting month against that month's cap.

The register entry is what the fund reads. Töötukassa proceeds from the duration of the employment relationship as entered in the registerTootukassa: if the entered period is longer than eight days, registration as unemployed ends, even if the person actually worked fewer daysTootukassa. A wrongly marked period must be corrected by the employer with a correction entry.Tootukassa The related duties are unchanged: the employer concludes a contract in the ordinary way, registers the work, and pays and declares labour taxes on the TSD in the normal manner, with the same social-tax minimum obligation as for ordinary employment.

Legal basis: Tööturumeetmete seadus § 11.