On 21 December 2000, the Norwegian Supreme Court ruled in two appeal cases concerning employee's right to retain employment with their original employer in the event of outsourcing or change in ownership. Both cases had previously been through previous court proceedings at lower levels before going
A compromise over the 2001 state budget, reached between the present Labour Party (Norske Arbeiderpartiet) government and the coalition of opposition centre parties on the 18 November 2000, may lead to a softening of the provisions regulating immigration to Norway for employment purposes. The
On 16 November 2000, Jens Ulltveit-Moe was elected as president and Gerd Kjellhaug Berge as vice-president of the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon, NHO), Norway's main employers' organisation. Immediately after taking up office, Mr Ulltveit-Moe caused
In autumn 2000, the social partners expressed their opinions on the report, issued in June, of a public committee that had considered a "strategy for employment and value creation" in Norway (/NOU 2000:21/). The report was expected to form the basis for a continuation of the "solidarity alternative"
A number of Norwegian trade unions are facing financial difficulties due to falling membership levels and increasing trade union activities. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisasjonen i Norge, LO) and its member unions witnessed significant operating revenue deficits in 1999
The Director of the Norwegian Labour Market Administration (Aetat), Ted Hanisch, resigned from his post on 23 October 2000 after it was revealed that the organisation had for a long period provided false and exaggerated figures concerning the number of people it had helped to find jobs. An external
A majority of delegates at the congress of the governing Labour Party (Norske Arbeiderpartiet) - held on 9–12 November 2000 - voted in favour of a proposal for the partial privatisation of the state-owned oil company, Statoil, and the "State's Direct Financial Interest" (Statens direkte økonomiske
The four trade unions involved in talks over the creation of a new confederation - the Norwegian Union of Teachers (Norsk Lærerlag, NL), the Teachers' Union Norway (Lærerforbundet), the Norwegian Nurses' Association (Norsk Sykepleierforbund, NSF) and the Norwegian Police Federation (Politiets
Another attempt may be made to create a new trade union confederation in Norway in the near future, according to plans presented by four public sector unions in September 2000. The four organisations are the Norwegian Police Federation (Politiets Fellesforbund, PF), the Norwegian Union of Teachers
On 18 August 2000, around 1,300 pre-school teachers belonging to the Norwegian Union of Teachers (Norsk Lærerlag, NL) ended a strike which had lasted over two and a half months. At an extraordinary meeting on 19 August, the national congress of NL accepted a new proposal for a collective agreement