Finance
Safeguarding vulnerable workers
695 businesses have received funding to provide training for their staff in reading, writing, arithmetic, Computer use and Norwegian. One in three receives support to…
Finance
The oil fund, energy prices, taxes, housing and the Norwegian economy.
Finance
Northern Norway fears for fishing industry
Two out of three inhabitants in Northern Norway fear that fish resources will benefit others, than the coastal residents in the future. The results are from a survey…
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People of Oslo stuck in Queues
Drivers in Oslo are held up in traffic jams 145 hours a year, on top of normal travel time. Oslo is heading the statistics for Scandinavia, while Stavanger drops one…
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Norwegians’ ‘real salary’ fell by 1.2% last year
Average wage growth fell from 2.8% in 2015, to 1.7% last year, according to the preliminary report of the Technical Reporting Committee (Teknisk Beregningsutvalg).…
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Norway not allowed cuts in child benefits abroad
EU refuses Norway the ability to reduce child benefits for workers with children living in other EU countries. The government wishes to adjust the allowance and cash…
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Major contract rescued Norwegian One Subsea jobs
One Subsea was in the middle of an extensive downsizing process when they received a contract worth 2.5 billion NOK with the Australian oil and gas company Woodside. The…
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The Consumer Council considers lawsuit against rising Oslo rubbish collection charges
The Consumer Council thinks it is arrogant for Oslo, and the Sanitation Department to send citizens an extra bill for private rubbish collection. The case could go to…
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Rema boycotting Easter eggs
Rema 1000 does not take into Freia Easter eggs this year. The reason is that the product still contains palm oil. The threat to exclude eggs from Easter assortment was…
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Property tax increases in Oslo
Oslo City Council will bring in three times as much in property taxes when property tax is increased from 2 to 3 ‘promille’ . From this year also commercial properties…
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The Government proposes to change child support after age 18
“Our main goal with these proposals is to make the child support scheme better, more accurate and fair “, says Solveig Horne, the minister for Children and Equal Rights…
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3,500+ complaints to the Consumer Board in 2016
The Consumer Board (Forbrukerrådet) received more than 3,500 requests from customers who were unhappy with their purchases made from other EEC countries last year. 25…
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More senior citizens are getting into ‘inkassogjeld – debt collection’ debt
Payment penalties among the elderly are growing at a faster rate than average. The increase was 13% among retired people in just two years. Altogether, more than 13,000…
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