Tag: Corona virus

Corona sabotaged labour negotiations

Spring wage and benefit negotiations between Norway's biggest trade union federations and employers' organizations traditionally rank as among the most important events of the...

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...

Justice minister calls for more police

Norway's new justice minister, Monica Mæland of the Conservative Party, has asked the state police to hire up to 400 extra police officers. She...

Hurtigruten, ferries lay off thousands

Hurtigruten, Norway's famed coastal voyage line, is laying off another 225 employees after also succumbing to the Corona virus crisis. The company earlier laid...

Norway equipped to tackle Corona crisis

The Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) suffered through another terrible day on Monday, as the price of Norway's biggest export product, oil, also sank to...

State rides to the Corona rescue

The usually quarreling parties in Parliament set aside political differences on Monday and got the government to further sweeten its economic crisis package for...

Visits restricted at hospitals, nursing homes

Only family of elderly patients who are dying are allowed visits, after nursing homes and many hospitals imposed new restrictions during the weekend. Not...

King Harald urges unity and confidence

"We're in this together, and together we'll get through what lies ahead," King Harald V declared in a surprise televised address to the nation...

Solberg launches huge crisis fund

Prime Minister Erna Solberg is now offering a Corona crisis fund worth at least NOK 100 billion (USD 10 billion), with half of it...

Not even hytte holidays allowed

The Norwegian government was stepping up its battle against the Corona virus this weekend in a manner that may bother Norwegians the most: banning...
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