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Complete our quick survey and tell us what it's been like. https://www.thelocal.no/20180530/working-internationally-tell-us-about-it Wed, 30 May 2018 14:30:11 +0200 working-internationally-tell-us-about-it Dozens of firemen have cycled nearly 500 kilometres from Bergen to Oslo and handed over a petition to parliament to have cancer recognized as a workplace injury. https://www.thelocal.no/20140604/firemen-cycle-norway-cancer Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:24:00 +0200 firemen-cycle-norway-cancer Police and labour inspectors have uncovered widespread ”modern slavery” at car washes across Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20140603/modern-slaves-wash-norwegians-cars-police Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:48:00 +0200 modern-slaves-wash-norwegians-cars-police Moving to Norway should be made easier for highly-qualified foreign workers, Prime Minister Erna Solberg has said, as she unveiled plans to allow non-European experts and specialists to jump immigration queues. https://www.thelocal.no/20131227/solberg-foreign-workers Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:02:00 +0100 solberg-foreign-workers A small Norwegian country hospital has almost only Swedish doctors on its staff. Most have come from the same clinic in Sweden, seeking more attractive employment terms in Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20121031/attractive-hours-lure-docs-from-sweden-to-norway Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:05:00 +0100 attractive-hours-lure-docs-from-sweden-to-norway A town in eastern Sweden has launched a creative approach to battling youth unemployment in the area by paying jobless young people to move to Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20121031/swedish-town-pays-jobless-to-move-to-norway Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:41:00 +0100 swedish-town-pays-jobless-to-move-to-norway With major oil investments and low interests rates helping to fuel the job market, Norway’s unemployment rate dropped to 2.6 percent in August. https://www.thelocal.no/20120831/norway-jobless-rate-falls Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:44:00 +0200 norway-jobless-rate-falls A rapid influx of young Swedes is making it difficult for their Norwegian counterparts to get part-time work and summer jobs, according to a new study. https://www.thelocal.no/20120726/swedes-keep-young-norwegians-out-of-work Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:56:00 +0200 swedes-keep-young-norwegians-out-of-work Already the envy of Europe for their handsome pay packets, Norway’s workers saw their wallets swell still further in 2011 as average monthly earnings jumped 3.8 percent to 38,100 kroner ($6,660). https://www.thelocal.no/20120329/norway-wage-earners-see-wallets-bulge Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:50:00 +0200 norway-wage-earners-see-wallets-bulge For the second year running, Norwegian employees have named buy and sell website Finn.no the best large company in the country to work for. https://www.thelocal.no/20120320/buy-and-sell-site-is-norways-best-employer Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:26:00 +0100 buy-and-sell-site-is-norways-best-employer After several years of what a leading economist has described as “mass immigration”, foreign nationals made up 15 percent of Norway’s workforce in 2011, official figures show. https://www.thelocal.no/20120130/foreigners-make-up-15-percent-of-norway-workforce Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:28:59 +0100 foreigners-make-up-15-percent-of-norway-workforce Oslo city authorities have expressed concerns that as many as 2,000 job seekers from southern and eastern Europe could end up living on the streets of the capital this spring. https://www.thelocal.no/20120126/oslo-braces-for-wave-of-homeless-europeans Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:18:45 +0100 oslo-braces-for-wave-of-homeless-europeans Job seekers with Norwegian names stand a much better chance of securing employment than applicants with more unfamiliar names, a new report has shown. https://www.thelocal.no/20120110/ethnic-discrimination-rampant-among-employers Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:00:05 +0100 ethnic-discrimination-rampant-among-employers Eleven of the 47 people who have died at work in Norway in 2011 came from other countries, new figures show. https://www.thelocal.no/20111207/workplace-deaths-hit-foreigners-hardest Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:37:34 +0100 workplace-deaths-hit-foreigners-hardest Norwegian unemployment has never been lower and joblessness among its immigrant communities and foreign workers is lower than elsewhere in Europe, a harried Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told parliamentarians on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20111130/stoltenberg-under-pressure-over-foreign-workers Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:17:41 +0100 stoltenberg-under-pressure-over-foreign-workers Half of Norwegian employers are breaking legally binding rules agreed over time with trade unions when it comes to temporary unemployment, although some in an autumn survey said they “didn’t know the law”. https://www.thelocal.no/20111115/half-of-all-employers-ignore-labour-law Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:30:55 +0100 half-of-all-employers-ignore-labour-law