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EU directive gives Nordic platform workers new hope

EU directive gives Nordic platform workers new hope

(Mar 25, 2024) The EU platform work directive is in place at last. It should help platform workers in the Nordic EU countries who work for companies like Foodora and Wolt to secure decent working conditions. In Norway, this was solved at the start of this year through a change to the working environment act.

Threats to Swedish social service workers: New inquiry proposes stricter legislation

Threats to Swedish social service workers: New inquiry proposes stricter legislation

(Feb 29, 2024) Threats and harassment against public officials in Sweden are commonplace and on the rise. This has major consequences for individual employees and risks undermining democracy in the long term. A new public inquiry proposes stricter penalties for violence towards public officials as well as making it a crime to insult public officials.

Greenland: New legislation to secure improved working environments

Greenland: New legislation to secure improved working environments

(Nov 06, 2023) Working environments in Greenland should improve after new labour legislation sharpens the focus on mental well-being and imposes higher fines for companies that break the law.

The fragmented working day of a bus driver

The fragmented working day of a bus driver

(Sep 26, 2023) Bus drivers come and go. One who has remained in the job is Stefan Andreasson. He got his bus driver’s license 35 years ago and has been driving public transport buses for the same number of years. Now he drives regional buses and a library bus in and around Helsingborg.

New occupational health measures to cut fatal accidents in Danish agriculture

New occupational health measures to cut fatal accidents in Danish agriculture

(Aug 22, 2023) Far too many workers are seriously injured at work and the number of fatal accidents in Danish workplaces is at its highest since 2008. Now a parliamentary majority demands action across the three most dangerous sectors, including agriculture.

Mental and social health issues focus during work environment conference

Mental and social health issues focus during work environment conference

(May 30, 2023) The number of work-related deaths in the EU fell by 57 per cent between 1998 and 2019. But the positive development has flatlined in the past four years. New vigorous action is needed to make a vision zero strategy for work-related deaths a reality.

All senses need to be tuned to safety

All senses need to be tuned to safety

(May 30, 2023) To reduce construction site risks, the Safety Park focuses on several senses. That is why you could witness dancing EU politicians and a Swedish labour minister trying out what it feels like being blind, as participants from the EU work environment conference came to visit.

Swedish schools want zero tolerance for violence

Swedish schools want zero tolerance for violence

(May 30, 2023) Prevention and preparedness if the worst should happen – that is what working against threats and violence in Swedish schools is about. Cooperation could slow down the negative trend.

Working on the Baltic Sea – long shifts and a close community

Working on the Baltic Sea – long shifts and a close community

(Apr 27, 2023) The ferries between the Nordics and the Baltics are important transport corridors and keep a lot of people in employment. One of the boats doing the crossing is Aura Seaways, where 52 crew live and work for four weeks at a time.

Norwegian security guards dread work among violence and threats

Norwegian security guards dread work among violence and threats

(Apr 14, 2023) Norwegian security guards are ill-prepared to face a tough work environment, according to a new report from the Work Research Institute at OsloMet. One in four dreads going to work.

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