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Annette changes tack tema

Annette changes tack

Annette Pedersen decided she wanted to become an electrician. She simply changed tack to get out of unemployment.
The best mix: old and young together tema

The best mix: old and young together

“We should look after our senior staff, but it is not our intention to turn Linjegods into a workplace exclusively for older workers. We must also attract the young, so that we get what we call a success mix of age groups, says Asbjørn Aanesen, who is organisational director at Linjegods.
Understanding each other – digital services ease cultural exchange tema
| LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

Understanding each other – digital services ease cultural exchange

A common digital platform for topical conversations with Nordic profiles could raise awareness about what is going on in our neighbouring countries – just like television once did. New technology makes it easier to cross national borders.
Job-related Swedish language training boosts employment tema

Job-related Swedish language training boosts employment

Several larger municipalities in Sweden are making Swedish lessons for immigrants more targeted to the labour market. Language lessons are mixed with practical learning. Örebro municipality west of Stockholm represents one example where vocational education is mixed with language lessons.
From opera to Slush – how #metoo is changing the Nordics nyhet
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From opera to Slush – how #metoo is changing the Nordics

The global #metoo campaign, which sheds light on sexual harassment and aims to break the culture of the silence surrounding it, has arrived in the Nordics. Many groups in Sweden, from actors and journalists to lawyers and trade union members, have signed petitions. We take a closer look at the situation in Denmark and Finland.
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Need for closer co-operation on labour force mobility between Nordic and Baltic countries

Ministers of labour from the Nordic countries and Baltic states have agreed to increase bilateral and multilateral dialogue and the exchange of views on common labour market policy issues actively and on all levels.
Creating synergies for life science cooperation in the Öresund Region nyhet

Creating synergies for life science cooperation in the Öresund Region

Is a bridge enough to expand the common labour market in the Öresund region, or is more needed? The answer from Medicon Valley Alliances’ CEO is: We must also become better at identifying and using the factors that benefit both Denmark and Sweden and explore the potential of this.
Disabilities vs. the labour market nyhet

Disabilities vs. the labour market

Young people with disabilities and their access to the labour market will receive special focus when Sweden takes the helm at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2008.
Metoo - also at the Oslo ministers' meeting nyhet
| Dec 2017, #metoo

Metoo - also at the Oslo ministers' meeting

"This is a huge thing," says an engaged Ylva Johansson, Sweden's Minister for Employment. The working environment was a topic for debate during the Oslo labour ministers' meeting. There she explained the scale of #metoo in Sweden. Next year her country will be heading the Nordic Council of Ministers, focussing on integration, the future of work and measures to stop work-related crime.
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Will platform companies fit into the Nordic model?

Does the Uber driver have an employer? Is the ‘self-employed’ actually an employee? And what will the zero hours worker live from if he or she does not get to work enough hours?
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