The Competency Barometer is a survey of skills demand among the member companies of Norway’s largest employer organisation, the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO). The results are derived from the answers of approximately 5,300 companies, representing different company sizes, sectors, and
The right to breastfeeding breaks has guaranteed by labour legislation since the 1950s, although employers have been left to decided whether working mothers who take them should be paid or not.
In December 2012, the Norwegian government set up a public committee to analyse Norway’s wage formation system. It was composed of representatives from all the major trade unions and employers’ organisations and a number of independent economic experts. The tripartite committee was chaired by the
In Norway, women make up roughly half of labour market participants. Although they generally have a higher level of educational attainment than men, they often find themselves in different segments of the labour market. This is often most clearly marked by a predominance of one gender or the other
In the parliamentary elections of 2013, Norway’s centre-left government was replaced by a right-wing coalition of the Conservative Party (Hoyre [1]), whose leader Erna Solberg is the new Prime Minister, and the Progress Party (FrP [2]). The new government will seek support for their political
On 29 April 2013, a group of 80 Norwegian workers began a strike in a dispute with their employer, the IT company Atea [1]. The workers were all members of the Electricians’ and IT Workers’ Union (EL&IT [2]), a trade union affiliated to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO [3]). [1] http