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    Agency workers should have equal rights

    Workers hired through labour agencies should be granted the same rights to salaries, holidays and working hours as if they were hired directly by the company employing them, says a Swedish special investigator.

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  • Meeting of Nordic Labour Ministers: Turning point for youth politics

    How do you reach youths who are not in education nor employment? How do you motivate youth to finish their education? How do you secure a safe transition between school and working life? These were among the questions when labour ministers met to discuss youth unemployment in Copenhagen on 25 November.

    6 minutes

  • Nordic region’s anti-social dumping drive

    The fight against some Eastern European workers’ bad working conditions in the Nordic countries depends on better information.

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  • FMs Lavrov and Støre call border agreement small yet important

    Norway’s and Russia’s Foreign Ministers signed an agreement on 2 November making it much easier for 9,000 Norwegians and 45,00o Russians to visit each other.

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    FMs Lavrov and Støre call border agreement small yet important

  • Work environment key to Swedish competitiveness

    The work environment is often associated with risks, but now the Swedish government wants to turn the phrase on its head and highlight the positive sides. A good work environment can improve workers’ health, lift the business and improve competitiveness. Those are some of the conclusions from the government’s national action plan for the work…

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  • Early, active measures to fight youth unemployment

    All the Nordic countries are hard at work to limit the rising youth unemployment. The measures differ but there is broad agreement on the need for early, comprehensive and active measures to help youth finish their education.

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  • New jobs from bottlenecks

    Sustainable development will be the main trend for working life next year, predicts Finnish future researcher Antti Kasvio at the Helsinki-based Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. He and colleague Timo Räikkönen have looked at how global changes influence the way we work.

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  • “The Nordic region must capitalise on social capital”

    The Nordic countries are unofficial world champions when it comes to social capital – a clear competitive advantage. But to keep that advantage business leaders must become better at exploring the potential of social capital, according to a new Danish book.

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  • Iceland’s new slimmed-down and EU-critical government

    Iceland’s government has been cut from twelve to ten ministers. Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir says the ministerial posts will be cut further in the new year with the merging of several departments.

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  • Working life: a non-issue in the Swedish election

    Jobs and social security were important issues during September’s parliamentary elections in Sweden. Yet there was no focus on how people view their working environments. “There was an exceptional lack of debates about working life,” says Roger Mörtvik, public policy director at the Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees.

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