Tag: welfare
Debate flies over aid for beggars
Last week police and city officials were actively breaking up illegal and unsanitary camps set up in downtown Oslo by mostly Romanian beggars who...
Workers lacking despite immigration
Shortages in the Norwegian labour force have increased 20 percent in the last year, with Norwegian industry now lacking at least 61,000 workers, according...
Even more reason to wave their flag
Norway’s relatively high standard of living, built up over the past few decades with oil and gas revenues, has once again resulted in an...
Top politicians to debate welfare state
Top international politicians, including some government leaders, were to meet in Oslo later this week for a conference aimed at preserving social welfare states...
Adecco nursing home scandal grows
One of Norway’s biggest private nursing home companies, Adecco Helse, has been rocked by revelations that employees at one of its flagship homes have...
Why Norway’s welfare state works
NEWS ANALYSIS: As Norway heads into the New Year, it can boast low unemployment, one of the world's highest standards of living and strong...
More poor children in Norway
Not everyone in Norway is facing a happy holiday season, despite the country's relative economic affluence. Oslo-based research foundation Fafo estimates around 100,000 children...
Welfare agency allowed to snoop
Politicians and ordinary citizens alike were unhappy to learn last week that state welfare agency Nav has a legal right to probe welfare recipients'...
More state funds for elder care
Norway's left-center coalition government is handing over another NOK 1 billion for elder care, after recent criticism that it wasn't doing enough for the...
Who’s the daddy of childcare?
COMMENTARY: Norway's maternity and paternity leave benefits rank as the most generous in the world, sparking debate both at home (over new proposals to...
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