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The Swedish agreement model’s big test

In 2016 the Swedish wage setting model is being put to its biggest test for several decades. Agreements must be made for some three million employees, but the members of the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) are split, and different demands from different unions and trades risk breaking a nearly 20 year old tradition where the industry has set the norm for wage increases.
Hillevi Engström: more social responsibility needed in working life interview

Hillevi Engström: more social responsibility needed in working life

Once the leading star of Swedish Police, Hillevi Engström is now in charge of whipping working life into line. She wants to use her role as Minister for Employment to challenge businesses to take social responsibility. In return she offers economical incentives and an improved education system.
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Lise Bech Hansen

Labour shortages all around, including in the Danish film industry nyhet
| LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

Labour shortages all around, including in the Danish film industry

It is hard to find tradespeople who have time for new projects and the Danish film industry is short of everything from actors to scriptwriters. Businesses are asking the government for more foreign labour.
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Theme: Language technology and Nordic cooperation

Small languages need big language's help to reach IT giants tema
| LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

Small languages need big language's help to reach IT giants

Languages that are not used in the digital world will not survive. That is the brutal message which formed the basis for the Nordic language meeting – a two days long conference on the latest development in language technology.
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Lilja D Alfreðsdóttir

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Greenlandic Wikipedia

Norway's interpreter costs rise, yet interpreters are underused tema
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Norway's interpreter costs rise, yet interpreters are underused

The cost of interpreter services in the public sector has risen sharply in Norway. In 2019 the total cost was 843 million kroner (€85.3m). In six years interpreter costs have gone up by 72%. But not using qualified interpreters at all can quickly become even more costly. New interpreter legislation could improve the situation.
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