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Experts propose a more labour targeted and user friendly NAV nyhet

Experts propose a more labour targeted and user friendly NAV

One year has passed since Norway’s Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Robert Eriksson appointed the Expert group tasked with undertaking a comprehensive review of the Labour and Welfare Administration NAV under the motto ‘From bureaucratic reform to user reform’. Now the report is ready: ‘A NAV with possibilities.’
Work-related crime must be fought with improved cooperation tema
| Sep 2018

Work-related crime must be fought with improved cooperation

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.
Focus on ill health means less absence tema

Focus on ill health means less absence

If you at an early stage enter a dialogue with workers who are ill, you reduce the level of sick leave. That's the experience in the Høje-Taastrup municipality west of Copenhagen.
Theme: A lost year for integration? Infocus

Theme: A lost year for integration?

Will 2020 and perhaps even 2021 be lost years for integration of immigrants who have recently arrived in the Nordics? Will the consequences of the corona pandemic turn everything on its head?
"The welfare model is vulnerable to high levels of immigration of adults with low skills levels." tema
| Feb 2017

"The welfare model is vulnerable to high levels of immigration of adults with low skills levels."

There was great concern in the Nordic countries a few years ago that they would be hit by an age shock. The fear was an increasing lack of labour as a result of falling numbers of young and middle aged people. But out of the four main demographic drivers, only one developed as expected: Populations are ageing.
More exposed to cancer – Norwegian firefighters pushing for legal change tema

More exposed to cancer – Norwegian firefighters pushing for legal change

They expose themselves to great risks to save others and property. But the price they pay can be high. Firefighters are more likely to develop cancer than people in most other occupations. There are now growing calls for making it easier for firefighters to have cancer recognised as an occupational disease.
Nordic countries are trailblazers, but few women reach top positions tema
| Dec 2016

Nordic countries are trailblazers, but few women reach top positions

Women in the Nordic countries participate in the labour market to a greater degree than in any other country. But some glass ceilings remain unbroken, concluded the conference “Global Dialogue on Gender in the World of Work” which was held in Helsinki in late November.
Norway's Minister of Labour Anniken Hauglie is passionate about social entrepreneurship interview

Norway's Minister of Labour Anniken Hauglie is passionate about social entrepreneurship

Anniken Hauglie is changing working hour regulations and strengthening legislation protecting whistleblowers. Together with the social partners she wants to draw clearer lines for what staffing agencies can and cannot do, strengthen work against work related crime and she invites Nordic colleagues to discuss what the sharing economy and new trends will do to the future of work.
Loa Brynjulfsdottir wants to defend the collective agreement model interview

Loa Brynjulfsdottir wants to defend the collective agreement model

Loa Brynjulfsdottir is the new general secretary at the Council of Nordic Trade Unions, NFS. Her top priority is to further defend the Nordic collective agreement model. It is under pressure from the more regulations-based way in which labour market issues are dealt with within the EU.
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Newsletter from the Nordic Labour Journal 2/2012

Theme: Gender equality - in our generation?
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