Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Norway as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Norway: Supreme Court ruling on working time
One of the biggest problems with the EU Working Time Directive is that it divides up activities into just two categories – working time and non-working time …
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Norway: Longer-term changes in wage inequality
From 1997 until around 2014 inequality in the wage distribution in Norway increased …
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Norway: Employee consultation within Group companies
A new body of rights will come into force on 1st January 2024 under amendments to the Working Environment Act that will require conglomerate companies to provide for information, cooperation and consultation across the Group, whether or not they have established works councils under EEA rules …
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Norway: Loss of workplace influence
A quarter of all employees in Norway have reported that they feel they have lost influence in the workplace, although one fifth thought it had increased over the last three years …
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Norway: Proposed changes to the Working Environment Act
Proposition 14 L is the fore-runner of a formal amendment that includes a more detailed definition of employee, as distinct from a contractor or consultant …
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Norway: New Norwegian Transparency Act on social sustainability becomes effective as of 1 July 2022
Large enterprises must now reveal whether their supply chains (and those of their business partners) are in compliance with fundamental human rights and decent working conditions – including the living wage …
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Norway: Norwegian travelers permitted to use expired passports to enter a few European countries
Passport and national ID card issue and renewal delayed by chip supply chain problems …
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Norway: Women in Maritime
A new study conducted by the University of Applied Sciences on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries shows that the share of women in the maritime sector remains low …
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Norway: Oil service workers agree wage deal, averting strike
A wage settlement for offshore oil and gas workers has headed off a strike threat …
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Norway: Parliament repeals the rule on access to temporary employment
New restrictions on the hiring of temporary staff apply from 1st July 2022 …
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Norway: 3.7% pay deal for pilots of Norwegian Air
The pilots union also secured the transfer of those on temporary contracts to permanent positions and gained agreement from the airline for employees to be informed by the preceding December when they could take their annual leave in the following year …
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Norway: Country-by-Country-Reporting for large multinational enterprises
Multinational enterprises (MNE), with consolidated income of more than NOK 6 …
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Norway: Home office regulation
The Home Office Regulation has been amended to tidy up its various safeguards …
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Norway: Occupational pension reforms
Occupational pension reforms take full effect this Summer …
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