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New rules for long-term sick leave in Sweden
Swedish job centres face busy times as 16,000 people on long-term sick leave are transferred from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency to the Public Employment Service. From now on they should be offered individual help and advise to help them re-join working life. The move has been met with fierce criticism, forcing the government to…
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The need for a comprehensive youth policy
Labour ministers want an overview of all measures targeted at youth across all policy areas in the Nordic countries.
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Tailored and targeted measures to help young Danes
Denmark is launching a tailored and targeted drive for 15 to 17 year-olds to get them into education or work. The Danish government plans to spend 1.25 billion Kroner (€170 million) over three years to see the plan through. But the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions says a threat to cut youth benefits is a…
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Municipal job activation in the firing line
Denmark has made municipalities solely responsible for job activation and employment projects for the unemployed in what has proved to be a very controversial reform.
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Work place health promotion – a double-edged sword
Pedometers, weight clubs, gym memberships – more and more companies invest in their employees’ health. For most the results are good. But work place health promotion can also create second-class workers, according to a new study from Umeå Universitet.
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Iceland’s crisis
The money, the assets – have they all evaporated? Once upon a time there was a tiny country – an island – far out at sea, west of Scandinavia, east of the large American continent.
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The deaf TV editors
In a crisis those on the peripheries of the labour market suffer the most. Who wants to invest in a deaf or deafblind when the future of the company hangs in the balance? ASVO in Bergen, Norway, does exactly that.
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Finland’s system of “job alternation” becomes permanent
The popular Finnish system of “job alternation” will continue. The system proved so popular and efficient the government decided in September to draft a law to make it permanent.
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Knowledge bank to help young outsiders
By 2013 the European Solidarity Foundation (ESF) will have funded 1,000 projects in Sweden alone aimed at young workers and those who fall outside the labour market. The resulting know-how is taken further by The Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs and the Employment Service with their project “Young Workers”.
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Class decides young adults’ options
Social background plays a major part when young adults consider their chances of fulfilling their professional dreams. Old structures go and the individual takes centre stage, forcing people to carry responsibility for their own success or failure. No matter where you work, the group matters less and less.
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