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On 6 September 2006, four of the five large Norwegian newspapers deliberating a possible merger decided to continue talks to create a joint media consortium, Media Norge. The newspapers involved in the talks are the national newspaper Aftenposten [1], and the three regional newspapers Bergens
The number of workers from the new EU Member States entering the Norwegian labour market poses a substantial regulatory challenge for the Norwegian labour market institutions and the national authorities. National regulatory agencies as well as the media increasingly report on substandard wages and
New figures from the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (Utlendingsdirektoratet, UDI [1]) published in June 2006, show that migration of individual job seekers to Norway from the eight new EU Member States in central and eastern Europe (i.e. not including Cyprus and Malta) following enlargement of
The 2006 wage settlement resulted in a 10-day strike of employees within the banking and insurance sector at the beginning of June. The Finance Sector Union (Finansforbundet) took strike action because the employers refused to accept trade union input in the development of the sector’s occupational
On 7 June 2006, the government intervened by means of compulsory arbitration in the bargaining dispute in the state sector between the Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations (Akademikerne [1]) and the state. The decision followed more than two weeks of strike action among employees with
On 21 April 2006, the social partners in the private transport sector concluded revised collective agreements for bus drivers, freight transport workers and for environmental and refuse disposal workers. Following two weeks of difficult negotiations, and subsequent mediation, agreement was reached
The average wage growth among Norwegian wage earners between 2004 and 2005 stood at 3.25%, according to preliminary figures issued by the Technical Calculating Committee on Wage Settlements (Teknisk beregningsutvalg for inntektsoppgjørene, TBU) in March 2006. This is slightly lower than the 3.75%
On 31 January 2006, the Norwegian Supreme Court (Høyesterett) ruled in favour of the employee side in the transfer of ownership case filed against the Scandinavian airline, SAS Group. As a result, the previous Braathens employees employed by SAS, following the company’s takeover of Braathens in 2001
A recent report by the research institute FAFO, published in October 2005, shows that the trade union movement is not doing enough to embrace ethnic minorities. While approximately 100,000 immigrants from non-Western countries are currently employed in the Norwegian labour market, not one of them