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Denmark's stricter requirements cut refugee employment rates

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

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

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

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

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.
Swedish municipalities target youth unemployment tema

Swedish municipalities target youth unemployment

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.
Are the Nordic welfare states prepared for crises? nyhet

Are the Nordic welfare states prepared for crises?

Do the Nordics spend too little money on Nordic welfare? Yes, believes Iceland’s Minister for Nordic Cooperation Eygló Harðardóttir. She sees great opportunities for more welfare cooperation, and supports a proposed Nordic welfare forum and a system for common welfare indicators, to be better prepared for future crises.
Matilda af Hällström, entrepreneurial Nordic Council lobbyist in Brussels interview

Matilda af Hällström, entrepreneurial Nordic Council lobbyist in Brussels

It is an active 24-year-old which the Nordic Council has chosen to be its first local representative in Brussels. Matilda af Hällström is already busy finding out how the Nordic Council can improve its cooperation with the EU and within the EU.
Norwegian Point Carbon has its finger on the pulse of emission trading tema

Norwegian Point Carbon has its finger on the pulse of emission trading

A smiling Barack Obama adorns Per Otto Wold's office coffee mug. Mr Wold is CEO at Point Carbon, a Norwegian provider of news, analysis and consulting services for the global power, gas and carbon markets. President Obama doesn't sit on his desktop by chance. The American President is on everybody's mind here.
Equal pay: a fight between genders or between the rich and poor? tema
| FUTURE OF WORK

Equal pay: a fight between genders or between the rich and poor?

Society treasures resources and power more than anything. If we do not deal with economic inequality we will get nowhere, said the leader of the Icelandic trade union Efling, Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir, during a panel debate at the Nordic conference The Future of Work, held in Reykjavik between 4th-5th April.
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