Editorial

Globalisation is slowing down

Oct 24, 2024 Globalisation is a powerful process impacting trade, migration patterns, and cultural influences. It cannot be stopped overnight, but now there are signs of globalisation slowing down.
When global supply chains are threatened, reshoring increases tema

When global supply chains are threatened, reshoring increases

Oct 23, 2024 It is better to manufacture closer to your market and pay a higher price than to lose sales and get dissatisfied customers. That is why several Swedish companies have decided to bring production back home.
Did Norway just find the industrial future in Telemark's bedrock? tema

Did Norway just find the industrial future in Telemark's bedrock?

Oct 23, 2024 The Fen Complex in Telemark has something the world needs: Europe’s largest documented deposits of rare earth elements. Now, plans are underway again for mining in one of Norway’s oldest industrial communities.
Do globes have anything to do with globalisation? tema

Do globes have anything to do with globalisation?

Oct 23, 2024 Has the world entered a period of deglobalisation? Or are the forces of globalisation so strong that trade continues to grow, only in new ways? When new barriers are erected, what will the consequences be?
Could fewer international students damage Norway’s international standing? tema

Could fewer international students damage Norway’s international standing?

Oct 23, 2024 The number of international students in Norway is falling dramatically. Fewer Norwegian students are going abroad and fewer international students are arriving. A loss for Norway, argue educational experts.
Finland: Strong collaboration against work-related crime News

Finland: Strong collaboration against work-related crime

Oct 22, 2024 The shadow economy and economic crime, illegal work and the exploitation of labour will be some of the priorities when Finland takes over the Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2025.
Improved Nordic labour market statistics provide better insights News

Improved Nordic labour market statistics provide better insights

Oct 22, 2024 The Nordic Statistics Database, a collaboration between the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Swedish statistics and research company Statisticon, has undergone huge developments. This will benefit anyone working with comparative Nordic assessment statistics in working life.
News

Swedish strip club challenges ban on night work

Oct 22, 2024 Should the employees at the strip club Club Heartbeat be allowed to work all night? No, says the Swedish Work Environment Authority. Yes, says the club’s owner, referring to a new collective agreement that allows exceptions to the Working Hours Act.
New Nuuk airport could provide lift for Greenland’s labour market News

New Nuuk airport could provide lift for Greenland’s labour market

Oct 21, 2024 Direct cross-Atlantic flights to Nuuk could bring even more tourists to Greenland and in the long term encourage Greenlandic youths to get an education and find work in their home country.
Iceland facing watershed moment as PM calls snap elections News

Iceland facing watershed moment as PM calls snap elections

Oct 21, 2024 Iceland is heading for snap elections in November after the right-left coalition of Bjarni Benediktsson collapsed in October over a range of disagreements. Political scientists were not surprised and some predict a watershed moment in Icelandic politics.
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Nordic governments' sigh of relief as collective bargaining rights still intact

Oct 19, 2024 Pilots and cabin crew do not perform work of equal value, thus it is not discriminatory when pilots receive higher travel allowances. This was the somewhat anticlimactic ruling from the EU Court of Justice in a case that Sweden and Denmark feared would set a precedent that could threaten the right to free collective bargaining. That did not happen this time.
Editorial

All prim and proper in sports and construction

Sep 19, 2024 In this edition, we have two themes: The fight against work-related crime and Sport as occupation. We thought they were very different. But there are things in common also here.
Norway doing construction in a more orderly way, but EU temping rules might stop it tema

Norway doing construction in a more orderly way, but EU temping rules might stop it

Sep 19, 2024 When Oslo’s new government quarter is constructed, it is done with workers who have regulated wages and working conditions. This is ensured, among other things, by the controversial hiring ban.
Tight Nordic-Baltic cooperation against work-related crime tema

Tight Nordic-Baltic cooperation against work-related crime

Sep 19, 2024 Work-related crime is a growing problem that requires cross-border collaboration between state authorities and countries. For several years, a Nordic-Baltic collaboration on work-related crime has been in place. In January 2025, it will be formalised on the initiative of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Denmark cracks down on social dumping and money laundering tema

Denmark cracks down on social dumping and money laundering

Sep 19, 2024 Danish authorities have introduced tighter legislation and lawsuits to stop cooperation between gangs and lawyers in cases of money laundering and social dumping.
Security issues drive political changes in Nordics and EU News

Security issues drive political changes in Nordics and EU

Sep 19, 2024 Sweden has a new minister for employment, Denmark has established a new ministry for civil security and Finland secured one of six Executive Vice Presidents in the European Commission.
Coach to Norwegian ski stars: Burnout not worth it tema

Coach to Norwegian ski stars: Burnout not worth it

Sep 19, 2024 Lage Sofienlund is a successful cross-country skiing coach. While training to be one, he asked himself more than once: “Is being a coach really a career?”
Living his boyhood dream on Faroese football pitches tema

Living his boyhood dream on Faroese football pitches

Sep 19, 2024 Mikkel Dahl has played against global stars like Ivan Perisic, he has won the championship, the cup final and holds the record for most league goals. He has done it all with a club he never heard about before he was 27: Havnar Bóltfelag in the Faroe Islands.
Pro footballer: Takes more than playing ball tema

Pro footballer: Takes more than playing ball

Sep 19, 2024 Santeri Väänänen (22) from Finland is a professional football player for Norwegian Rosenborg BK. Everyday life is pretty much the same regardless of which country you are playing in, he thinks.
The Swedish football club using sports against unemployment and for inclusion tema

The Swedish football club using sports against unemployment and for inclusion

Sep 19, 2024 The challenge for sports clubs is to attract those who have not yet become engaged, especially those who need support on their journey toward a healthier life and who want to become more involved in society. It’s about more than just building muscles.
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