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"Finnish home care support increases inequality"
Mar 07, 2018 Fewer Finnish children go to nursery than elsewhere in the Nordic region. One reason is the home care support, paid to parents who chose to stay at home beyond the normal parental leave period. The organisation Mothers in Business wants to scrap the benefit altogether, calling it a trap for women.
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"Important to continue the extension of collective agreements"
Nov 16, 2021 Many workers enjoy improved conditions thanks to the extension of collective agreements. One leader of a trade union organising fisheries workers believes the solution must continue even though it is not a magic solution.
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"More hard issues should be discussed at the Nordic Council"
Jan 20, 2020 Protect democracy, fight fake news and protect biological diversity. These are issues on the agenda for Iceland’s 2020 Presidency of the Nordic Council. Another focus area is to improve knowledge of Nordic languages.
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"Part-time is a result of lacking equality”
Mar 07, 2011 The high number of involuntary part-timers is a result of how we value women's work, says Annelie Nordström, chairwoman at Kommunal, the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union. The union has been fighting for the right to full-time employment for 30 years. It's been an uphill battle, and since the economic crisis hit in 2009 it's been even harder.
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"Saving the environment" with liquid-cooled data centres
May 30, 2023 Global data giants are looking to countries with a lot of renewable energy and high security levels to build environmentally friendly data centres. But as electricity prices skyrocket, they are also being accused of taking energy needed in other sectors.
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Feb 2017
"The welfare model is vulnerable to high levels of immigration of adults with low skills levels."
Feb 02, 2017 There was great concern in the Nordic countries a few years ago that they would be hit by an age shock. The fear was an increasing lack of labour as a result of falling numbers of young and middle aged people. But out of the four main demographic drivers, only one developed as expected: Populations are ageing.
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"Yellow" trade union struggles to gain foothold in Norway
Oct 28, 2022 Krifa claims to be a good alternative to traditional trade unions in Norway, especially as union membership is up among employers but down among employees. Traditional unions feel Krifa is too close to employers and disagree with their anti-strike policy.
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3D technology breakthrough pushing up product development tempo
Apr 11, 2014 3D printers have been in the spotlight for a long time. They represent technology which now looks like it is having its breakthrough. This is not only about printers becoming cheap enough to buy for private individuals. It is about a completely new production technology which represents the opposite of the way industries produce products today.
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