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Tougher welfare rules put youth to work

Norway's state welfare agency NAV is seeing some positive results from its current process of toughening rules for obtaining benefits. Demands that young welfare recipients...

Unemployed may need to relocate

Norway's state welfare agency NAV is bracing for a rush of applications from laid-off workers filing for unemployment benefits. NAV predicts another 10,000 Norwegians will register...

Government tackles rising jobless rate

Another 9,000 people were registered as out of work in Norway by the end of September, prompting state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway) to...

Another 200 jobs to be cut, now at Kongsberg Maritime

Management at Kongsberg Maritime, a division of the large industrial firm Kongsberg Gruppen, announced Monday that 200 jobs will be cut in a downsizing...

200 lose jobs in shipyard bankruptcy

The bankrupcy filing this week of Noryards Fosen shipyard in Trøndelag will throw another 200 people out of work, the latest casualities of the slowdown in...

Housing prices ‘will keep rising’

Norway's economic downturn may already have bottomed out, except in the Stavanger area, according to fresh prognoses released on Wednesday. Regional differences are expected...

Statoil may move many jobs abroad

Statoil, still Norway's biggest company, is now seriously evaluating whether to move hundreds of administrative jobs to a lower-cost "business center," probably in an eastern...

300 lose their jobs at oil service firm

Norway's rising unemployment rate looked likely to edge up even more after offshore oil service company MHWirth announced that 300 of the firm's employees in...

New NAV boss gets down to work

Sigrun Vågeng started her new job as head of Norway's state welfare agency NAV this week, a post billed as one of the worst and...

Layoff notices to NAV have tripled

NAV, Norway's state welfare agency that processes everything from pensions to unemployment benefits, has reported that local employers have warned them of upcoming layoffs...
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