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Experts split over oil price damage

Norwegian business leaders and economic forecasters are split over whether the ill effects of low oil prices are now spreading nationwide. Some think the "oil...

Job applications pour in for new solar venture

Even before its 70 new jobs were advertised, officials at Elkem Solar had received around 250 applications from people wanting to work at the...

Norwegians brace for a leaner year

For the first time in years, prices may rise more than paychecks in Norway, while unemployment edges up. That means leaner but not necessarily...

More Norwegians want to work longer

A new poll released this week shows that steadily more Norwegians want to work longer, at least until they turn 70. Most get squeezed out...

Law firm hosts seminars for foreign workers facing layoff

UPDATED: A law firm in Stavanger, a city hit hard by the ongoing downturn in the oil and offshore industry, decided to host an...

Laid-off expats denied benefits

As layoffs in the oil industry abound, many foreign workers and expatriates who've lost their jobs in Norway are discovering that they're being denied unemployment...

Three convicted of human trafficking

Three members of a family charged in what's been called Norway's most extensive human trafficking case ever were sentenced to jail terms on Thursday that...

Employers prefer Norwegian speakers

Foreigners applying for jobs in Norway are often overlooked, no matter how qualified or highly educated they may be, if they can't communicate in...

Another oil firm slashes 1,500 jobs

It's been a bad week so far in the Norwegian oil industry, with at least 3,000 more jobs disappearing as low oil prices force...

LO leader: ‘Scrap au pair system’

The leader of Norway's largest trade union confederation, LO, wants to do away with the country's "au pair" system that's intended to be a cultural...
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