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Pressure on online journalists challenges job engagement tema

Pressure on online journalists challenges job engagement

Jun 19, 2013 New technology puts more pressure on journalists to be ‘online’ and makes their job situation more diffuse and the journalists more vulnerable. Meanwhile support systems have not changed. If you want to create commitment and job engagement you need to strengthen work environment resources, say researchers.
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Work engagement gives Nordic competitiveness

Jun 19, 2013 Global competition is challenging the Nordic welfare states, spurring the countries on to work together to strengthen competitiveness, growth and job creation. A Nordic report shows how good work environments can be a competitive factor. So the Nordic Labour Journal focuses on work engagement and job commitment and ask: can work engagement improve growth? Talking about it is not enough, say Danish and Norwegian experts – good work environments are born out of action. It looks like the Finnish company Fondia has managed the trick. They have fun at work and was named Europe’s best workplace.
More companies take responsibility in fight against youth unemployment tema

More companies take responsibility in fight against youth unemployment

Sep 13, 2013 What does a successful anti youth unemployment project look like? The Nordic labour ministers have asked Danish consultancy agency Damvad to map Nordic youth projects that are based on cooperation between authorities and companies.
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Finland: Adults with jobs seek out apprenticeships

Sep 13, 2013 In later years the EU Commission has been very interested in using apprenticeships to create more opportunities in the labour market for young people.
Labour market education: a pathway to work? More knowledge is needed tema

Labour market education: a pathway to work? More knowledge is needed

Sep 13, 2013 Labour market education was the hot topic for the discussion between employment ministers and the social partners at the Nordic Minister meeting in Övertorneå on 27. august. The debate unveiled large differences between the Nordic countries, and a lack of knowledge about the efficiency of such measures. A new Nordic initiative aims to give a nuanced insight into systems and the way they operate.
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Apprenticeships: a new chance in working life

Sep 12, 2013 Many can work, but not all are able to get a job, says Sweden’s Minister for Employment Hillevi Engström. What is needed to help people outside of the labour market into jobs?
Successful vocational training for long-term unemployed in the Arctic tema

Successful vocational training for long-term unemployed in the Arctic

Sep 13, 2013 The Arctic Vocational Foundation is a joint Nordic institution providing individualised training within more than 30 vocations to unemployed Finns, Swedes and Norwegians. This, is where Sweden’s Minister for Employment Hillevi Engström invited her Nordic colleagues and working life representatives to consultations. What makes this training so special?
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Apprenticeships: a new chance in working life

Sep 12, 2013 Many can work, but not all are able to get a job, says Sweden’s Minister for Employment Hillevi Engström. What is needed to help people outside of the labour market into jobs? Is labour market courses offered by job centres a good idea? Are there good examples of businesses which have taken the challenges seriously and which have fulfilled young people’s dream of finding a job? In July the EU Commission launched ‘The European Alliance for Apprenticeships‘ which focused on German experiences. The Arctic Vocational Foundation is a successful Nordic vocational training institution. Under the bright Polar sky the Nordic conversation was given new life through the stories of the people who have been given a new chance here.
British youth trapped in zero hour contracts tema

British youth trapped in zero hour contracts

Nov 07, 2013 In the UK the use of so-called zero hour contracts is increasing in step with the country’s economic uncertainty. Employers say the contracts created jobs and give workers more freedom. Trade unions fight what they call the exploitation of young people.
Danish educator: my economy suffers because of part time work tema

Danish educator: my economy suffers because of part time work

Nov 07, 2013 Dorte Nielsen is one of many Danish female public sector employees in part time work. Her working life has improved but her economy has suffered.
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