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Telenor lays off another 79 workers

Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor is cutting back again, this time at divisions in Gjøvik and at company headquarters at Fornebu, west of Oslo. The...

Telenor cuts more staffing

Management at Norwegian telecoms firm Telenor plans to shut down another customer service center, since fewer customers ring in for help. The center on...

NAV reports another dip in layoffs

Norway's state welfare agency NAV reported this week that it received around 1,500 notices from employers of looming layoffs and furloughs in May. That...

Aker Solutions rewards executives

Aker Solutions is the latest Norwegian company to release financial reports that reveal what their own executives earn. Employee representatives had trouble accepting how the...

Statoil scolded over workers’ buyouts

Norway's state oil company Statoil was the target of some angry editorials and complaints this week, after newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported just how...

Unemployment declines, but fewer working

Both Norway's employers' organization NHO and its largest trade union confederation LO are warning against getting too optimistic about the decline in unemployment. A...

Unemployment rate declines

Norway's state statistics bureau SSB (Statistics Norway) has reported that unemployment declined on a national basis in December to 4.4 percent. That's down from...

Telenor, Statkraft cut hundreds of jobs

Norwegian power company Statkraft and state-controlled telecoms firm Telenor announced more major jobs cuts on Thursday. At Telenor, the cuts were blamed on the...

Rolls-Royce cutting staff again

Rolls-Royce's marine division in Norway has offered all 1,650 of its employees severance pay packages if they volunteer to give up their jobs. It's...

Media crisis hits TV2 hard

Norway's national commercial television channel, TV2, is facing what's being called the largest round of layoffs to ever hit a Norwegian media company. Legal...
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