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Working hours: a hot topic for the Labour Inspection Authority director interview

Working hours: a hot topic for the Labour Inspection Authority director

Feb 11, 2011 Ingrid Finboe Svendsen's dream is to create a popular drive for a better work environment. The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority has often been in the spotlight for dealing with cases of social dumbing, but the Authority's director wants to showcase the full scope of what the organisation does. And this is where Facebook comes in.
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Less part-time work to secure more “warm hands”

Feb 16, 2020 A major and urgent lack of trained social and health care assistants – so-called SOSUs – has led to a heated debate over the widespread use of part-time jobs in Denmark’s social and health care sector.
A silver lining for working life during corona nyhet

A silver lining for working life during corona

Aug 14, 2020 Improved gender equality, less stress and more people who feel they have a meaningful job with positive challenges. Those are some of the surprising results found in the 2020 Norwegian working life barometer.
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Denmark's 50 years long tug-of-war with the EU

Mar 23, 2023 Denmark is the EU veteran among the Nordic countries. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Denmark joining the EC, as it was called back then. And during all these years, the Danes – with increasing difficulty – have fought to maintain their labour market model. Now, they have run out of patience and the tug of war has culminated with Denmark trying to have the minimum wage directive ruled invalid.
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Denmark's stricter requirements cut refugee employment rates

Sep 08, 2021 A tougher immigration policy in Denmark has had the exact opposite effect of what it intended to have, a new analysis shows.
Prolonged sitting an increasing health and safety risk in Europe nyhet

Prolonged sitting an increasing health and safety risk in Europe

May 15, 2020 Sedentary work has become one of the main challenges identified in the third major study of European work environments from the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work.
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| FUTURE OF WORK, Dec 2017

Joint Nordic project on the future of work

Dec 11, 2017 The Nordic ministers of labour have launched a comprehensive research project led by the Norwegian research foundation FAFO, studying how Nordic working life might look like in 2030. The knowledge resulting from the research will be used for further cooperation on the future of work in the working life sector.
Trine Lise Sundnes: Nordic workers’ voice at the ILO interview

Trine Lise Sundnes: Nordic workers’ voice at the ILO

Jan 31, 2012 The most important labour-regulating conventions were first introduced in Europe before being exported to countries elsewhere. Yet these same rights are now under threat from European countries looking for more ways to cut costs in the face of the economic crisis, says Trine Lise Sundnes, who represents Nordic workers on the ILO’s governing body.
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How Nordic local authorities can create social sustainability

Mar 27, 2025 A new book from Kristin Reichborn-Kjenner describes how municipalities can create social sustainability in practice. “Sustainability is more than climate, Teslas and battery factories,” says the research professor from the Work Research Institute at OsloMet.
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Swedish municipalities target youth unemployment

Oct 15, 2014 Over the past seven years, Sweden’s Public Employment Service has taken on more and more responsibility for labour market measures aimed at young people. But it has been a challenging task, and municipalities have become increasingly central to getting people into work or training. If they don’t, the cost of marginalisation lands on the municipalities’ desk.
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