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A new attitude to who might participate in the labour market?
Oct 16, 2018 “Nothing is harder than giving up what does not work.” That was the message from Norway’s welfare administration director Sigrun Vågeng as she opened the largest Nordic conference on Supported Employment so far in Oslo. Is this a sign of a paradigm shift?
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Oct 2018
18 recommendations to improve Danish work environments
Oct 16, 2018 Workplaces should be more centre stage in the work to improve work environments. That is the recommendation from an expert committee appointed by the Danish government, tasked with turning around negative workplace developments.
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Oct 2016
Denmark can learn from Sweden’s work environment measures
Oct 16, 2018 Sweden has a stronger culture for cooperation than Denmark when it comes to work environments, according to a survey carried out on behalf of an expert committee looking at measures for improving work environments.
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Finland: More awareness around workplace threats to social workers
Oct 16, 2018 Female Finnish social and care workers run a higher risk of being the victims of violence and threats of violence. Social workers very often suffer verbal threats that sometimes turn into pure stalking. The authorities are now aware of the problem, but the road to safer workplaces is long.
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Kone: Lifting the office environment to a new level
Sep 27, 2018 Few Nordic companies play such a big part in the work environment as Kone. But they do it discretely. As long as everything works, hardly anyone thinks about the lifts and escalators we use to and from our jobs and inside the building where we work.
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Sep 2018
Work-related crime must be fought with improved cooperation
Sep 07, 2018 When crime occurs in organised ways, inspection authorities and the social partners also need to improve their cross-border cooperation. This was one of the messages when participants from the Nordics and Baltics met at an experts’ seminar in Stockholm recently.
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Sep 2018
Finland: Unions and the construction industry join forces to fight shadow economy
Sep 07, 2018 Trade unions and employers have entered into an unusual collaboration to fight unfair competition and the shadow economy within the Finnish construction industry. A cross-border cooperation has also been important for work environment agencies in Finland and Estonia.
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Sep 2018
Labour migration to Denmark leads to fear of increased social dumping
Sep 07, 2018 Denmark is a popular destination for jobseekers from other EU countries. Trade unions fear this could lead to increased social dumping and want more controls. Yet most foreigners are in jobs that are covered by Danish collective agreements, says one expert.
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Sep 2018
The Oslo model brings transparency to the construction sector
Sep 07, 2018 The view is dizzying as one of the construction workers climb the steps at the top of the new Munch Museum which is being built in Oslo. The museum will be more than a shop window for Norwegian culture; the construction project is also meant to be a showcase for fair competition and working conditions in the construction industry.
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“Paternal leave extremely important to reach gender equality"
Jun 22, 2018 “Today’s paternal leave legislation gives employers a lot of room to negotiate with men whether they should take leave or not. We need less flexible solutions,” says Anne Lise Ellingsæter, who has led a Nordic inquiry into parental leave. It proposed to reserve 20 weeks’ leave for the father.
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The research project against all odds: Olli Kangas on Finland’s universal basic income
Jun 22, 2018 Does Finland’s experiment with a universal basic income prove that this could be a solution for the future? We will not know until 2020. But in one way, the research project has already been a success – the fact that it was possible to carry it out at all.
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The platform giants are profitable – but create few new jobs
Jun 22, 2018 The digital revolution will transform the work force in the 21st Century, just as the industrial revolution. But technology will create a host of new type of jobs and challenges as society moves from muscle and brainpower to data power, according to professors Bo Dahlbom and Ragnar Torvik.
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May 2018
Skills and fair distribution a precondition for digitalisation
May 28, 2018 Nordic people are keen to adopt new technology at work. The region is leading the way. The challenge is making sure workers get the chance to adapt to new skills, how to organise skills development and who should pay. We need better systems to handle the challenges, said Ylva Johansson at the recent conference on the Future of Work in Stockholm.
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May 2018
OECD: Robots less of a threat to Nordic jobs, but major IT gender gap is
May 28, 2018 14 percent of jobs in OECD countries are at high risk of becoming automated, while a further 32 percent of jobs will change radically, says Mark Keese, Head of the Skills and Employability Division at the OECD.
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May 2018
The Disruption Council explores the future
May 28, 2018 Long before the Danish Disruption Council ends its work, it has already identified a range of ways to secure that digitalisation, robots and artificial intelligence (AI) increase wealth and improve welfare, even though many traditional jobs will disappear.
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May 2018