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Theme: The lack of assistant nurses
Feb 17, 2020 Across the Nordics there is a lack of hospital staff. NLJ focuses on assistant nurses. How do you increase the occupation's status? By giving it legal protection, as is proposed in Sweden? By transferring tasks from nurses, as is being done in Norway, or by establishing more full-time jobs like in Denmark?
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Future of work in Iceland
Apr 12, 2019 In the lead up to the International Labour Organisation's centenary, the last our of four Nordic conferences on the future of work have been held in Reykjavik. ILO Director-General Guy Ryder got updated information on how Iceland's paternal leave legislation and equal pay standard work. The Nordics' most important role is to lead by example, he pointed out.
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Theme: The two sides of equality
Mar 06, 2019 How hard can it be? Iceland's Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has taken on the gender equality portfolio herself in the Icelandic government. The country achieves close to a full score in the NLJ's gender equality barometer. But gender equality is not the same as general equality, warns Sweden's LO, pointing to a widening gap between women in blue and white-collar jobs. In Denmark, it is the EU which is pushing for paternal leave, while in Finland there is a heated debate about the basic income.
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Feb 2019
Sick leave being scrutinised again
Feb 15, 2019 When unemployment falls sick leave levels rise, says Finnish researcher Jenni Blomgren. As a result, authorities are looking for ways to get more people into work. But how to do this is no easy task. 17 years of an inclusive workplace agrement in Norway shows as much. And not only adults fall ill (picture above). In Sweden, February is the top month for both "vabba" and "vobba".
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Theme: New Nordic perspectives on the work environment
Oct 16, 2018 In Denmark, a new committee has published 18 recommendations for how to improve work environments. In Sweden another committee is looking into who should be responsible for inspecting work environments in the new economy. In Finland there is growing awareness that threats to nurses and social workers represent one of the main work environment issues.
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A labour market with fair competition and conditions
Sep 07, 2018 The Nordics and the Baltics have taken the fight against the shadow economy one leap forward. The Nordic Undeclared Work Project has allowed control and inspection agencies the chance to get to know each other. Norway has inspired Estonia an Finland, and the partners in the Finnish construction industry have been fighting the shadow economy together for the first time. The Oslo model shows how concrete demands can be presented in the procurement phase to prevent work-related crime.
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Research inspires policy development
Jun 22, 2018 The Nordic Work Life Conference 2018 presented and debated research on a range of topical and challenging social tendencies. The Nordic Labour Journal this month focusses on Norway's expansion of its paternal leave quota, Finland's universal basic income and the new platform economy.
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Future of Work
May 28, 2018 We need better systems to handle the challenges, said Swedish Minister of Labour Ylva Johansson at the recent conference on the Future of Work in Stockholm. 14 percent of jobs in OECD countries are at high risk of becoming automated, while a further 32 percent of jobs will change radically.
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Diversity in the labour market – focus on newly arrived women
Apr 18, 2018 Nordic countries are world leaders when it comes to female employment rates. Yet unemployment remains high among newly arrived women. We take a closer look at who the women are, the cause of the problems and what can be done to get more women into work.
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Dec 2017
The Nordics are entering the future of work
Dec 11, 2017 How do we prepare the Nordic model for the future of work? The question gets a lot of attention in a time of major demographic and technological change. The count-down to the ILO’s centenary celebrations has started, and the Nordics want to contribute – but how?
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The Nordic region in Europe
Nov 22, 2017 The EU’s social pillar has been signed at the Social Summit in Gothenburg. Is there reason to fear it will challenge the Nordic model? What does the international trade union movement think? What do employers suggest, and what do the people and Europe’s leaders make of it?
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A good working environment – the Nordic region’s strength
Oct 23, 2017 Nordic countries have long worked for a good working environment. But every era has it's own challenges. Sunshine has replaced soot as the working environment threat that affect the most workers . As populations age, the labour market must adapt to older workers. The working environment has been the Nordic region’s strength. It must continue to be so.
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A Nordic drive for lifting competencies
Sep 19, 2017 A changing labour market always needs new competency. Employees and employers must stay up to date. Workplaces from fitness centres to fisheries need to secure the knowledge which new developments demand, whether it is digitalisation or yoga. All the Nordic countries are looking at how to organise their adult and continuing education.
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The Nordics: More openness for labour market inclusion
Jun 22, 2017 The refugee crisis has led to more cooperation between the Nordic countries in order to find the best ways of including refugees into the labour market. But inclusion is also about being open to everyone who for different reasons struggle to get a foothold in working life. Danish municipalities show how success can be achieved when the integration measures feel meaningful to all involved.
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Feb 2017
Refugees bring new life to Finnish Punkalaidun, known for its coffins
Feb 02, 2017 The road to Punkalaidun is beautiful, but treacherously winding and slippery in the wintertime. This is far out into the countryside. The municipality is more than 150 kilometres north-west of Helsinki.
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The 100-year-wave hits the Nordic labour market
Feb 02, 2017 Can migrants close the gaps in the labour market when the centenary wave hits the Nordic countries? Even if the population is growing, it is at the same time becoming older. We meet Vappu Bergren, almost 100 years old, some of the immigrants who have come to the North and researchers who warn that the welfare model is vulnerable.
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Nordic working life facing up to changing times
Dec 15, 2016 The labour market is changing. When the Nordic labour ministers met in Helsinki on 29 November, the integration of refugees into the labour market and challenges like demographics, new technology and a fragmented labour market were among the central issues. Together with the ILO, the discussion carried on around the future of work and gender equality.
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