Tag: unemployment
Unemployment hits new post-war high
Norway's state welfare agency NAV was clobbered again on Monday with 20,400 more applications for unemployment benefits. They've now soared to a stunning 243,000...
NAV overwhelmed by benefits seekers
Norway's state welfare agency NAV has been overwhelmed by an onslaught of applications from laid-off workers seeking temporary unemployment benefits. More than 45,000 have...
Unemployment rises unexpectedly
Norway' state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway) had some more sobering economic news this week, when it announced that its calculations showed a rise...
Immigrant jobless rate declines
The unemployment rate for immigrants in Norway declined last month, but remains three times as high as for Norwegians. State statistics bureau SSB (Statistics...
Jøtul moving production to Poland
Jøtul, which has been making wood-burning Norwegian stoves and ovens for years, is laying off around 100 employees in Norway and another 70 in...
Unemployment keeps falling
The number of Norwegians officially unemployed has fallen by another 20,000 during the past 12 months. That brought Norway's jobless rate down to just...
Technology cuts jobs at Telenor
Norway’s newly expanded conservative government is still promoting job creation and rapid digitalization of Norwegian society, but in many cases the two are distinctly...
Nordea to cut jobs in Norway, too
Nordic finance and banking group Nordea's decision to cut as many as 6,000 jobs is likely to lead to job losses in Norway as...
Telenor lays off another 79 workers
Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor is cutting back again, this time at divisions in Gjøvik and at company headquarters at Fornebu, west of Oslo. The...
Telenor cuts more staffing
Management at Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor plans to shut down another customer service center, since fewer customers ring in for help. The center on...
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