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2024 Equality barometer: Three significant women have disappeared from power tema

2024 Equality barometer: Three significant women have disappeared from power

Two years ago, it looked like the 24 positions of power in the NLJ’s gender equality barometer were just a few years away from being equally divided between men and women. Women had reached 92 points, and at 100 they would be on par with men. But in 2023, women’s points fell to 72 and this year sees a further fall down to 65 points.
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2024 Eurovision Song Contest

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A "Laval 2.0" case underway before the Swedish Labour Court?

Can Swedish trade unions take industrial action against foreign companies to make them pay occupational pensions for their posted workers? That is the question in a new case before the Swedish Labour Court, which bears similarities to the notorious Laval case that had far-reaching consequences for the Nordic countries.
A “Nordic”, independent Scotland post-Brexit? nyhet

A “Nordic”, independent Scotland post-Brexit?

The last time the Scots went to the polls to vote for or against independence from the United Kingdom, there was speculation whether an independent Scotland would seek to link up with the Nordic region. Next year things might get serious.
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A bridge to education across Denmark

The Danish project of building bridges to education for marginalised youths has proved so promising that it is now being rolled out across the whole of Denmark on a permanent basis.
A Danish conflict: Fighting the shadow economy vs respecting privacy tema
| Sep 2015

A Danish conflict: Fighting the shadow economy vs respecting privacy

The Danish government wants to ban the hunting for undeclared work in private gardens. The social partners and the opposition fear this will lead to more social dumping.
A day in the life of the office nomad tema

A day in the life of the office nomad

Janne Saarikko (40) has changed jobs again - or rather his place of work. He's now at Arc Technology, an IT business in Helsinki. He moved here with two blue IKEA boxes; one containing a computer and some papers, the other with his espresso machine, cups and saucers plus coffee beans.
A death blow for the social dialogue as a constitutional mechanism in the EU? nyhet

A death blow for the social dialogue as a constitutional mechanism in the EU?

The European Public Service Union EPSU lost on all points, while EU Commission’s claim was upheld – arguing it was not obliged to execute or carry forward new agreements that have been added to the social dialogue for decisions in the Council of Ministers, writes the latest issue of EU & Arbetsrätt.
A fish beer, anyone? The Finnish brewery that went green tema

A fish beer, anyone? The Finnish brewery that went green

Beer and the environment might not be obvious bedfellows. But the little brewery Ant Brew in Lahti uses waste products that would normally have been thrown out in order to create new and exciting beers.
A gender change in the cleaning profession nyhet

A gender change in the cleaning profession

Cleaning is about to become a male-dominated occupation. It used to be nearly exclusively women who worked the mop. Now men, especially those with an immigrant background, are taking over according to a report from the Oslo Institute for Social Research.
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