Editorial
What happened to the spirit of consent?
Nov 15, 2018 Have we become less good at solving conflicts in the Nordic region? Are we seeing a weakening of the spirit of consent which has made it possible to reach compromises that everyone can live with? This issue of the Nordic Labour Journal looks at the debate in the five Nordic countries.
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Nov 2018
Nothing is sacred in the debate about the Swedish model
Nov 15, 2018 The current Swedish collective agreement does not run out until 2020. That should normally mean a period of calm for the Swedish labour market. But the debate is raging: Big changes to the labour market could be just around the corner, depending on who ends up forming a government.
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Nov 2018
Finnish government on collision course with unions
Nov 15, 2018 The conflict between the Finnish government and trade unions over weakening employment protection legislation has led to several political strikes in Finland. The conflict seems to have been solved thanks to classic tripartite negotiations, yet the future of the tripartite model is increasingly unclear.
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Nov 2018
The European Labour Authority ELA challenges the Norwegian model
Nov 15, 2018 “If it turns out that Norwegian collective agreements can be overruled by the European Labour Authority, Norway might have to use its veto power in the EEA,” says Marianne Marthinsen, a member of parliament from the Norwegian Labour Party.
Portrait
Drífa Snædal, Iceland’s new ASÍ leader: Taking the helm in turbulent times
Nov 15, 2018 Icelandic trade unions are going through serious changes. The more than 100 year old Icelandic Confederation of Labour ASÍ has elected a new President – Drífa Snædal. For the first time ever, ASÍ is being led by a woman.
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Nov 2018
New conflict solving methods needed for reindeer husbandry
Nov 14, 2018 A new mediation body is needed to deal with conflicts within reindeer herding. Existing courts and mediation bodies do not fit in with Sami culture. This proposal comes from two Norwegian researchers and a judge who have spent three years studying conflict solution within the Sami reindeer husbandry.
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Employers’ conditions in the shipping and aviation sectors provokes hot debate in the Nordic Council
Nov 01, 2018 The Nordic Council is encouraging governments to work actively against social dumping in the shipping sector. But the Council does not want to initiate any coordination of Nordic aviation policies within the EU. These were the results after a hot debate in the labour market committee during the session in Oslo.
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How can you create more jobs by improving conditions for startups in the Nordics?
Oct 30, 2018 “Not much time has been spent in the political debate in the Nordic countries on how jobs actually are created. A lot of other issues have had more than an ample hearing. But job creation is crucial for how our Nordic welfare models develop,” says Idar Kreutzer. He has looked at how to secure risk capital for Nordic startups.
Editorial
New tendencies in Nordic work environments
Oct 16, 2018 Work environments can be many things. In this issue of the Nordic Labour Journal we investigate some of them. Oslo recently hosted the largest Nordic conference so far on Supported Employment. One of the questions asked there was who gets to partake in the labour market in the first place?
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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
The Nordics implement Supported Employment in very different ways
Oct 16, 2018 The Nordic countries use Supported Employment for getting vulnerable groups into the labour market in very different ways. A growing number of studies show the method gives better results than traditional measures.
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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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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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Oct 2018
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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Nader Ahmadi heads the new work environment authority with “ears to the ground”
Oct 16, 2018 In Swedish Gävle a new public body in work environment knowledge is emerging, which will be responsible for creating and disseminating knowledge. “The work environment is extremely important for socially sustainable societies,” says the Director General Nader Ahmadi.
In focus
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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