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Healthy, competent citizens: the Nordic plan for global competitiveness

Aug 31, 2010 Giant pan-Nordic drive for health and well-being takes off.
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One in five construction workers in Sweden are posted

Sep 12, 2013 Over 18,000 workers were this spring posted by companies from other countries to work in Sweden, most of them in the construction industry. The number of posted workers in that industry was nearly as high as one fifth of all the working members of the Byggnads union – Sweden’s main union for construction workers. These are figures from the first comprehensive attempt at mapping the posted workers in Sweden.
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Iceland's Confederation of Labour turns 100 in a more equal labour market

Feb 28, 2016 ASÍ - the Icelandic Confederation of Labour - is 100 years old this year. The anniversary is being celebrated with music and conferences in four different locations in Iceland in March. During this anniversary year one authority, one organisation or one company will probably be certified for Iceland's new equal wage standard.
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Protect the trust!

Sep 16, 2016 "Trust did not create the welfare state, but the welfare state could not exist without trust." That is one of many ways of describing how important trust is to the Nordic model. Other countries look to the Nordic region for inspiration and study how we organise the labour market. But trust could also be a boss giving employees the power to run the business, and using working hours for other things than attending staff meetings. That is the case at the City of Copenhagen's libraries (above). Here customers are trusted to let themselves in any time of day.
The City of Copenhagen: Work based on trust, not control tema
| Sep 2016

The City of Copenhagen: Work based on trust, not control

Sep 16, 2016 Managing and leading public sector jobs using trust can help solve the complex challenges facing the Nordic welfare states, believes a researcher behind a new study on the Copenhagen trust reform. She challenges the Nordics to share experiences of trust-based management and leadership.
Trust makes the workplace more innovative tema
| Sep 2016

Trust makes the workplace more innovative

Sep 16, 2016 Signe Jarvad is the boss of 60 employees at Copenhagen’s Leisure and Culture Administration and not afraid of making decisions. But not without sounding out all relevant parties, and she also leaves many of the decisions to the employees. She believes this has led to higher work satisfaction and more innovation.
The Nordic model under pressure from new leadership methods tema
| Sep 2016

The Nordic model under pressure from new leadership methods

Sep 16, 2016 New management models are threatening a long tradition of collective decision making within Nordic labour life, Nordic researchers say. Employees loose influence and their chance to cooperate to reach constructive solutions within organisations and businesses.
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| Sep 2016

Nordic countries top of global trust league

Sep 16, 2016 The Nordic countries are top of the world when it comes to trust. This means people dare to cooperate, which benefits the economy a great deal. And from trust more trust is born.
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ILO: The future labour market in dire straits, time for action

Sep 16, 2016 There is trouble ahead for the future labour market: global growth is falling, jobs are disappearing, employment contracts are changing, inequality is on the rise and the middle classes are no longer growing. But not everything points in a negative direction, and according to Finland’s Minister of Justice and Employment we can influence developments.
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