The work requirement you have accrued remains valid as long as you are not absent from the labour market without an acceptable reason for more than six months. If your absence from the labour market without an acceptable reason lasts longer than six months, the work requirement will lapse and must be fulfilled again after you return to the labour market.
You are considered to be available to the labour market when you:
- carry out work that counts towards the work requirement, either as an entrepreneur or as an employee
- participate in an employment-promoting service
- are registered as an unemployed jobseeker with the employment authority
An absence from the labour market is considered acceptable, for example, when you are:
- ill or undergoing rehabilitation
- a full-time student or receiving a grant
- on maternity, paternity or parental leave
- at home caring for a child under the age of 3