He was not actually an employee with a contract at the company, rather a guy they asked to do the news in English (which Finland gets like once a day) every once in a while. So it's not that he lost his primary form of employment.
This incident also got the guy a support group on Facebook which is now 50,000 strong: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kimmo-Wilska-support-group/157386920 961989