Tag: unemployment
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...
Aker Solutions cuts more jobs
Oslo-based Aker Solutions, hit hard by the slowdown in the oil and offshore industry, has announced a need to cut as many as 650...
Statoil ‘finished’ with job-cutting
Norway's biggest company, Statoil, started off the New Year with some good news for employees: Management has decided it's "reached its goal" for staff...
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