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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...

Norway ‘rigged for an economic upturn’

Oil prices will rise, Norway's krone will regain strength, unemployment will top out and housing prices will shoot up even higher. That's the overall outlook...

MPs shamed into reversal on pay

Members of Parliament (MPs) who initially voted in favour of a proposed doubling of their severance pay benefits have been so embarrassed by public reaction...

MPs won benefits after losing election

It's not always easy for top politicians to return to the ordinary working world after losing an election. Fully 21 former Members of Parliament...

Postal service to cut another 550 jobs

Norway's struggling postal service, Posten, looks set to lay off another 550 employees. The job cuts loom after the Parliament's transport committee went along...

Even more post offices set to close

The Norwegian postal service is quickly becoming a shadow of its former self. After a wave of post office closures earlier this year, more...

Telenor’s job cuts ‘shocked’ workers

After years of major expansion abroad, Norway's state-controlled telecoms firm Telenor is consolidating and cutting back at home. Nearly 200 employees at Telenor offices...

Embracing an uncertain future

The dive in oil prices has pushed thousands of people in Norway out of once-secure jobs in the oil and offshore industry. As job losses...

Hotel and restaurant workers exploited as job discrimination complaints rise

State labour officials have concluded that eight out of 10 companies in the restaurant and hotel industry violate Norwegian labour laws. Young employees and asylum...
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