WAS REFUSED SICK PAY: Joséphine Morel was signed off sick on 10 January this year. She didn’t receive sick pay until 20 April.
Sissel M. Rasmussen
WAS REFUSED SICK PAY: Joséphine Morel was signed off sick on 10 January this year. She didn’t receive sick pay until 20 April.
Sissel M. Rasmussen
Joséphine’s employer refused to pay her sick pay: – I cried for two days
This is what you must do if your sick note is rejected.
Kasper Holgersen
This is what you must do if your sick note is rejected.
Kasper Holgersen
Is your boss refusing to accept your sick note? This is what you must do
The minimum wage in Norway applies in nine industries.
Gorm Kallestad / NTB
The minimum wage in Norway applies in nine industries.
Gorm Kallestad / NTB
Pay, minimum wage, new minimum wage in Norway
This is the new minimum wage in Norway
The employer is responsible for ensuring that you have a contract of employment.
Colourbox.com
The employer is responsible for ensuring that you have a contract of employment.
Colourbox.com
Contract, contract of employment, employment contract, job
This is what your contract of employment must include
Workers risking their lives.
Arbeidstilsynet
Workers risking their lives.
Arbeidstilsynet
Accidents at work, the construction industry, building and construction
Alarming photographs from Norwegian building sites: These workers are risking their lives
Wage rates were raised in a variety of industries in the run-up to the summer holidays.
Brian Cliff Olguin
Wage rates were raised in a variety of industries in the run-up to the summer holidays.
Brian Cliff Olguin
Pay, minimum wage, new minimum wage rate
The minimum wage rate in nine industries has been increased
Find out more about how much Norwegian salaries will rise.
Brian Cliff Olguin
Find out more about how much Norwegian salaries will rise.
Brian Cliff Olguin
Strike, pay bargaining (lønnsforhandlinger), salary negotiations, wage
This is how much salaries in Norway will increase this year
These are the rules that apply to lay-offs.
Colourbox
These are the rules that apply to lay-offs.
Colourbox
Lay-offs, notice of a lay-off, pay
These are your rights if you are temporarily laid off from your job
A female mechanic was successful in her sexual harassment lawsuit against two customers. Her lawsuit was pivotal in defining sexual harassment in the workplace.
Colourbox
A female mechanic was successful in her sexual harassment lawsuit against two customers. Her lawsuit was pivotal in defining sexual harassment in the workplace.
Colourbox
Sexual harassment:
Have you experienced sexual harassment at work? This is what you can do
Check out what a normal monthly wage is in Norway.
Brian Cliff Olguin
Check out what a normal monthly wage is in Norway.
Brian Cliff Olguin
How much is a normal wage?
This is the most commonly-occurring monthly wage in Norway
Find out what your holiday entitlements are.
Colourbox
Find out what your holiday entitlements are.
Colourbox
Holiday leave and your rights:
When will I receive my holiday pay? Here are 10 questions and answers
How much will my pension be?
Anna Granqvist
How much will my pension be?
Anna Granqvist
Pension
If I move away from Norway, will I be able to take my pension with me?
Redink Fartein Rudjord/Ruter, Sissel M. Rasmussen, Erlend Angelo
Redink Fartein Rudjord/Ruter, Sissel M. Rasmussen, Erlend Angelo
Working in Norway:
For Ukrainians: 13 things you should know about working in Norway
Most employees in Norway will soon have their wages increased. Here you can read a brief explanation of the collective bargaining process.
Emmie Olivia Kristiansen
Most employees in Norway will soon have their wages increased. Here you can read a brief explanation of the collective bargaining process.
Emmie Olivia Kristiansen
Working in Norway: Collective bargaining (tariffoppgjør), salary negotiations, pay bargaining (lønnsforhandlinger), trade union organisation (fagorganisering), collective agreement (tariffavtale)
This is how your new pay will be decided – if you have a collective agreement
The attitudes of Norwegians towards immigrants have become increasingly more positive over the last two decades.
Colourbox
The attitudes of Norwegians towards immigrants have become increasingly more positive over the last two decades.
Colourbox
Working in Norway: Immigration, labour immigration, statistics
These seven graphs show that Norwegians are becoming more and more positive towards immigrants
If inspections (photograph) reveal that employees are not being paid what they are entitled to, their employer risks imprisonment for up to six years.
Håvard Sæbø
If inspections (photograph) reveal that employees are not being paid what they are entitled to, their employer risks imprisonment for up to six years.
Håvard Sæbø
Working in Norway: work-related crime, wage theft
New Norwegian law on wage theft: Stealing pay from employees can now be punished by a six-year prison sentence
In order to qualify for sickness benefit, you must submit a self-certification notification or a sick note.
Tri Nguyen Dinh
In order to qualify for sickness benefit, you must submit a self-certification notification or a sick note.
Tri Nguyen Dinh
Working in Norway: Self-certification (egenmelding), sick note (sykemelding), sick pay (sykelønn)
As an employee in Norway, how do I claim sickness benefit?
Four years ago, Viktorija and her husband Remigijus moved from Lithuania to Senja in Northern Norway.
Privat
Four years ago, Viktorija and her husband Remigijus moved from Lithuania to Senja in Northern Norway.
Privat
Working in Norway: trade union, unionised, organised
Viktorija from Lithuania is in a union: – If I have a problem at work, I now have someone to ask for help
The most common type of injury is from falling, with about 5000 cases a year.
Colourbox
The most common type of injury is from falling, with about 5000 cases a year.
Colourbox
Working in Norway: workplace injuries, accidents at work, occupational injury compensation
Foreign workers are more prone to workplace injuries: Here's what you need to remember if you are in a work accident
Whilst a waiter would on average make 29.850 kroner per month, a financial broker on average has monthly earnings of 96.150 kroner.
Colourbox.com
Whilst a waiter would on average make 29.850 kroner per month, a financial broker on average has monthly earnings of 96.150 kroner.
Colourbox.com
Working in Norway: salary, earnings, payslip
What is a regular salary in Norway? This is what the statistics tell us
During supervision, the Labour Inspection Authority will, for example, check if the scaffolding is built correctly and if the workers have the required personal protective equipment. (ILLUSTRASJONSFOTO)
Håvard Sæbø
During supervision, the Labour Inspection Authority will, for example, check if the scaffolding is built correctly and if the workers have the required personal protective equipment. (ILLUSTRASJONSFOTO)
Håvard Sæbø
Working in Norway: Wage theft, expensive and poor accommodation, double contracts, security in the workplace
These methods are used by rogue employers in Norway to exploit foreign workers
The waiter, the store employee, and the waste collector can all feel pain caused by repetitive strain on the body.
Martin Guttormsen Slørdal og Sissel M. Rasmussen
The waiter, the store employee, and the waste collector can all feel pain caused by repetitive strain on the body.
Martin Guttormsen Slørdal og Sissel M. Rasmussen
Working in Norway: Environment, health and safety (EHS / HMS), working environment, facilitation
Repetitive strain on the body: This is what your employer has to do to look after your health
Egle Rimdziute and Mindaugas Giedraitis work together in Northern Norway with window production.
Tormod Ytrehus
Egle Rimdziute and Mindaugas Giedraitis work together in Northern Norway with window production.
Tormod Ytrehus
Working in Norway: moving to Norway, wages, trade union
Migrant workers are drawn to Norway by wages. For Egle and Mindaugas, other things were more important
– I do not get supplemental pay when I drive domestically in Norway. It is the first I’ve ever heard of this, says a Filipino freight driver, who has many domestic assignments in Norway.
Stein Inge Stølen
– I do not get supplemental pay when I drive domestically in Norway. It is the first I’ve ever heard of this, says a Filipino freight driver, who has many domestic assignments in Norway.
Stein Inge Stølen
Working in Norway: Cabotage (kabotasje), minimum wage (minstelønn), wage theft (lønnstyveri)
Foreign drivers who drive cabotage in Norway are entitled to Norwegian wages. Many of them do not know this
You can now read articles from FriFagbevegelse in Lithuanian, Polish and English.
Martin Guttormsen Slørdal
You can now read articles from FriFagbevegelse in Lithuanian, Polish and English.
Martin Guttormsen Slørdal
Working in Norway:
You can now read news about Norwegian working life in English
TEMPORARY WORKER: – I would like Norway to be a good place to work, says scaffolder Isaac Maqbul.
Tormod Ytrehus
TEMPORARY WORKER: – I would like Norway to be a good place to work, says scaffolder Isaac Maqbul.
Tormod Ytrehus
Working in Norway: Wage theft (lønnstyveri), hiring of labour (innleie), equal treatment (likebehandling), temp agency (bemanningsbyrå)
Temporary worker Isaac did not get the pay he was entitled to. This is how he earned 14 kroner more per hour
Collective agreements can secure workers more favourable rights than the statutory rights, such as better working hours, overtime pay, pension and paid holidays.
Tormod Ytrehus
Collective agreements can secure workers more favourable rights than the statutory rights, such as better working hours, overtime pay, pension and paid holidays.
Tormod Ytrehus
Working in Norway: collective agreement (tariffavtale)
What is a collective agreement?
MINIMUM WAGE: Norway has no statutory minimum wage for all workers. But in, among others, construction sites, cleaning, fish processing and agriculture the minimum wage of the collective agreement applies to everyone who works within these industries.
Håvard Sæbø
MINIMUM WAGE: Norway has no statutory minimum wage for all workers. But in, among others, construction sites, cleaning, fish processing and agriculture the minimum wage of the collective agreement applies to everyone who works within these industries.
Håvard Sæbø