Tag: employment
Kværner wins huge Statoil contract
A contract for upgrading Statoil's Njord A platform was being formally awarded to the Kværner Stord yard on Norway's West Coast on Friday. The contract is...
Jobs moving out of Oslo, and Norway
Hundreds of public-sector jobs look set to be intentionally moved from the Norwegian capital of Oslo to other locations around the country, and, in the private...
Au pair scandal yields jail terms
The Oslo City Court has sentenced a wealthy Norwegian investor and his wife to five months in prison each, in a case that has...
Mining company allowed to dump in local fjord
Despite protests from the Sami Parliament and several environmental organizations, Norway's government ministry in charge of climate and environmental issues has allowed a mining...
Darker days for Norway’s Statoil
Statoil, hit by a string of serious accidents lately, had to deal with more bad news on Thursday when its third-quarter financial results showed...
Labour violations found at DNB
Regulators at Norway's state labour authority Arbeidstilsynet have uncovered several violations of the law at Norway's biggest bank, DNB. An investigation into claims of excessive...
Statoil eyes new cuts in North Sea
Norwegian oil company Statoil will have slashed its costs by around NOK 2.5 billion a year when it wraps up its so-called STEP efficiency program at the...
Unions want more influence at G20
Norway's largest trade union federations have joined their counterparts in the four other Nordic countries in issuing a joint call for Nordic representation at...
Tata denies Vipps workers exploited
Tata Consultancy Services, one of India's largest companies, firmly denies that the IT workers it has provided to work on major projects in Norway like...
Foreigners’ work conditions probed
Norwegian labour authorities are promising full anonymity to anyone who can tell them about pay and working conditions for hundreds of foreign technical experts, mostly...
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