Companies will be able to discharge employees for 1 year
Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) announced on Thursday new discharge rules. Companies can now discharge employees for up to one year. Normally, the discharge period…
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Norwegian has restored 600 employees who have been temporarily laid-off
Norwegian has recalled 600 temporarily laid off employees after the government, on thursday, was open to travel to Europe from the 15th of July. The…
Telenor employees can choose where to work from
On Wednesday night, Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke announced to all employees that they could choose where to work from in the future and not have…
Subsea 7 cuts 3,000 employees
The oil service company Subsea 7 will cut 3,000 employees from the workforce by the second quarter of next year. It is uncertain how hard…
Over 1,000 Norwegian McDonald’s employees laid off
McDonald’s has laid off around 1,030 of a total of 3,100 employees in Norway and closed seven of their restaurants as a result of the…
Grocery stores to install plastic screens to shield staff
Norwegian grocery stores will prevent the coronavirus infection by installing plexiglass at the tills. The measure comes after several Rema 1000 employees expressed concern about…
The clothing chain H&M is laying off 60 per cent of its employees in Norway
The clothing chain H&M is laying off 2,000 of its total 3,223 employees in Norway as a result of the corona crisis. The temporary layoffs…
No employees in the municipality of Oslo are to be temporarily laid off
None of the 53,000 employees in the City of Oslo are to be temporarily laid off, although large parts of city services are closed. –…
Tax-free company lays off over 1,000 employees
Travel Retail Norway, which operates the duty-free shops at the country’s largest airports, has laid off over 1,000 people. Hundreds of summer temps have been…
SAS will lay off 200 employees in Norway from Tuesday
SAS has sent layoff notices to 100 pilots and just as many cabin crew in Norway, reports Dagbladet. The reason is that the airline, like…
Aker Solutions warns of a notification for potential lay-off of their 6,000 employees in Norway
Aker Solutions has sent a notification to all its 6,000 employees in Norway. The alert was sent out Friday. The forecast applies in principle to…
Tine invests 800 million in Ireland – 430 employees must be laid off in Norway
Tine invests 800 million in Ireland, while 430 Norwegian employees have to leave. The management says the reason is cut by the export subsidy for…
Nortura discontinues operations at Otta – 78 employees affected
Nortura is shutting down a pig butchering plant at Otta and moving the activity to Rudshøgda. 78 employees are affected. The changes result in savings…
60 of the 80 employees at Vard Aukra have been dismissed
60 of the 80 employees at the Vard Aukra yard in Romsdal were told on Monday that they will not be allowed to continue working…
Coca-Cola cuts 42 employees from the sales department in Norway
For the second time in less than a year, Coca-Cola is downsizing Norway’s sales department in the company. 42 employees will lose their jobs.This is…
Elkjøp asked employees to work without pay
The electrical chain store; Elkjøp confirms that it has also, at two of its stores, had employees working on “clean-up” without pay. Employees at Elkjøp’s…
Hydro cuts 2,200 employees
Aluminum giant Norsk Hydro announces cuts of 2,200 employees by 2023. It is not known how many will be affected in Norway. A total of…
The government encourages companies to look wider for employees
In a letter to 100 large companies, the government requests that they hire more people with disabilities and gaps in the CV. The letter signed…
REC Solar lay off employees at Herøya
Solar cell manufacturer, REC Solar, have laid off 65 employees for half a year due to lower demand from, among other places,China. It represents almost…
Significantly more adults in kindergartens
1000 more kindergartens meet the requirement for staffing standards The staffing density in Norwegian kindergartens has increased significantly from 2017 to 2018. “This is very…