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Executive pay ‘low’ in Norway

Statoil Chief Executive Helge Lund is among top business leaders in Norway who regularly catch criticism over their compensation packages. Multi-million-kroner salaries aren't popular...

LO seeks to block Croatian workers

The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) wants to restrict Croatian immigrants from coming to work in Norway, in a bid to prevent social dumping. The...

Employees in uproar at DNB

The chief executive of Norway's biggest and highly profitable bank, DNB, has found himself in a major clash with thousands of employees over a...

Ex-mayor ‘guilty and not guilty’

UPDATED: Rune Øygard was once considered the most popular and successful mayor in Norway, a star of the Labour Party and mentor for Prime...

More pension turbulence looms

Norwegian airline Widerøe was flying again on Monday after striking flight attendants won the right to negotiate some of their pension terms and went...

Widerøe on strike, flights grounded

Flight attendants for the Norwegian commuter airline Widerøe went on strike Wednesday, stranding an estimated 11,000 passengers on the eve of the long Ascension...

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...

Strike threatens newspapers, TV2

Norway's national journalists' union NJ (Norsk Journalistlag) has threatened to call a strike from Saturday after its negotiators failed to reach agreement with the...

Lunchbreaks halt harbour traffic

A fierce labour battle has created severe indigestion among maritime employers, harbour workers in Oslo and their trade unions over the workers' longstanding tradition...

Labour working on Labour Day

Norway's traditional Labour Day celebrations on May 1 were taking on distinctly political overtones this year, as the Labour Party and others on the...

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