Tag: employment
Ex-ministers paid during job search
Former Oil & Energy Minister Ole Borten Moe has become the latest member of Norway's defeated left-center government to find a new job after...
‘Underclass’ emerges as jobs dry up
Lines have been forming every day outside the offices of the Norwegian Red Cross in Oslo, with unemployed people waiting for hours to secure...
Immigrant job seekers go west
Norway’s immigration rate continues to rise, but it seems Oslo is bucking the trend. A new report by Statistics Norway (Statistisk Sentralbyrå, SSB) shows...
Rates to stay low, industry relieved
Norwegian borrowers, businesses and industry could heave a sigh of relief Thursday when the country's central bank decided not to raise interest rates and...
Immigration viewed more favourably
Two years after a right-wing extremist Norwegian attacked the country's Labour Party-led government, claiming it was too open to immigration, a vast majority of...
Bosses often baffle foreign workers
Results of a new international employment survey show that workers in Norway generally enjoy their jobs but their bosses score low for failing to...
Few firms willing to hire foreigners
American, Australian, Indian and other foreign workers have little chance of landing good jobs with Norwegian companies, no matter how educated or qualified they...
New labour boss makes history
The election of Gerd Kristiansen as the new boss of Norway's largest trade union federation LO means that the country's two most powerful positions...
Oil industry claims huge number of jobs
Norway's oil industry claims it's responsible for far more jobs than state analysts have given it credit for. A new report from the industry...
Norwegian firms called ‘racist’
A leading Norwegian headhunter who recruits engineers and other skilled workers for Norwegian oil and oil-service companies says he's encountered a "shocking" degree of...
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