You can notify the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund of your wish to be deregistered by any means you choose:

• log in to e-töötukassa and click on the “Notify me of a job change” button on the page that opens,
• contact your counsellor by email or phone,
• come in person to an Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund branch,
• call the information line 777 3000.

Failure to notify us may result in the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund providing you with services or paying you benefits to which you are no longer entitled, and we may later be forced to claim back the amounts from you that you have unduly received (including the fees paid to the service provider).

Your registration as unemployed is terminated if you

• are employed on the basis of an employment contract or any other contract of employment, agency or provision of services, or holds a business account within the meaning of the Simplified Taxation of Business Income Act, or is in the public service, except in cases of temporary employment. Further information can be found here;
• hold office as a member of the Riigikogu, a member of the European Parliament, the President of the Republic, a member of the Government of the Republic, a judge, a Chancellor of Justice, the Auditor General, a public conciliator, a paid chairperson or paid deputy chairperson of a local government council, a paid member of a municipality or city government, including a mayor of a municipality or city, a mayor of a sub-district or city;
• hold public office as an independent person;
• become a member of the company's board of directors, a procurator, a partner authorised to represent a general partnership or a limited partnership, the manager of a branch of a foreign company or the manager of another permanent establishment of a non-resident, and do not qualify for unemployment insurance benefit or start to receive remuneration for it;
• have not been mentioned above and become a member of the management or control body of a legal person under § 9 of the Income Tax Act (e.g. a member of the management board of a foundation, non-profit association or cooperative, a member of the supervisory board of a company or a liquidator), receive remuneration for this;
• register as a self-employed person;
• are entered in the tax register as the spouse or registered partner of a self-employed person engaged in business activities;
• receive business start-up subsidies from the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund;
• are enrolled on a full-time course;
• are enrolled in full-time or part-time education or training (unless they have worked for at least 180 days in the 12 months before becoming unemployed);
• participate in compulsory military service, alternative or reserve service;
• start receiving an allowance for a spouse pursuant to the Civil Service Act and the Foreign Service Act;
• fails to attend a counselling session at the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund at least once every 30 days at the agreed time and in the agreed manner, unless they could not be contacted for good reason. If you are unable to attend a counselling session at the agreed time and in the agreed way, please inform your counsellor immediately;
• fails to attend the unemployment office for the third time at the agreed time and in the agreed manner, without good reason;
• refuse for the third time, without good cause, to carry out an activity or suitable work agreed in the action plan;
• are not ready to start work immediately. We assume that you will be in Estonia when you are looking for a job, and if you want to go abroad to look for a job, you will arrange this with your adviser;
• reach retirement age;
• will start to receive an early retirement pension (early pension);
• want your registration as unemployed to be terminated;
• are a national of a third country and the period of validity of your residence permit expires.  

If unemployment is terminated for the second consecutive time in 12 months because the unemployed person

• refuses to cooperate
• does not take part in the counselling for the third time or at least once in 30 days or
• refuses for the third time to take up an activity or suitable work agreed upon in the action plan, they will not be entitled to be registered as unemployed for 90 days following the end of the last registration period.

Example. After the unemployed person did not complete the activities agreed upon in the action plan for the third consecutive time, their unemployment status was terminated on 4 July 2016. When they were once more registered as unemployed on 5 July 2016, the unemployment was terminated again on 3 September 2016 because they did not take part in counselling once in 30 days. Now, the Unemployment Insurance Fund will not be able to re-register them as unemployed until 90 days have elapsed since they were last registered, i.e. 3 September 2016.