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Theme: Sustainable tourism

Newsletter from the Nordic Labour Journal 5/2025
Bold Nordic agreement without a political “father” tema

Bold Nordic agreement without a political “father”

The common labour market is the jewel in the Nordic cooperation. It was established as early as 1954, three years before the five first member states of what would become the EU signed the Treaty of Rome.
Improved labour market access for sign language users tema

Improved labour market access for sign language users

Earlier this year the Norwegian parliament passed a new language act that states that Norway is multilingual. For the first time, Norwegian sign language was recognised as the national sign language, equal to spoken and written Norwegian as a language and cultural expression.
Nordic students in Europe fall victim to physical land borders tema
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Nordic students in Europe fall victim to physical land borders

An entire generation Nordic students have grown up in a borderless Europe. Thousands are studying in other European countries. Most went back home in March as old borders started being reinstated because of the coronavirus.
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The threat of quotas

Norway and Iceland have already introduced them and now boardroom gender quotas are rolling out across Europe.
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Theme: Closed borders

Newsletter from the Nordic Labour Journal 4/2020
Scandinavian data centres: fewer jobs and less profit than forecast tema

Scandinavian data centres: fewer jobs and less profit than forecast

New data centres are popping up in Norway and Sweden along with a lot of hope for many new jobs and high returns.
An interest in engines took him to Sweden - but it didn’t pay enough tema

An interest in engines took him to Sweden - but it didn’t pay enough

Per Billington moved from Norway in 1984 to work at Volvo’s research department in Gothenburg for one and a half years. It shaped his entire career. This is where he learned ‘ordning och reda’ — Swedish ‘proper order’ — and he learned to love diesel engines.
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Theme: The lack of assistant nurses

Across the Nordics there is a lack of hospital staff. NLJ focuses on assistant nurses. How do you increase the occupation's status? By giving it legal protection, as is proposed in Sweden? By transferring tasks from nurses, as is being done in Norway, or by establishing more full-time jobs like in Denmark?
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Sick leave being scrutinised again

When unemployment falls sick leave levels rise, says Finnish researcher Jenni Blomgren. As a result, authorities are looking for ways to get more people into work. But how to do this is no easy task. 17 years of an inclusive workplace agrement in Norway shows as much. And not only adults fall ill. In Sweden, February is the top month for both vabba and vobba.
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