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Work is top priority in integration of Sweden’s new arrivals
As soon as newly arrived refugees are granted permission to stay in Sweden the process of getting them established in society begins. The goal is to cut the time it takes to get settled into the labour market. Those who want to can use personal guides who’ll help them with work and integration.
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Coaches compete for the unemployed Swedes
The Swedish government has charged the Public Employment Service with procuring coaches worth 1.1bn Kronor (€12m) for the year 2009. This created a fast growing market for coaching. Today 900 businesses have a contract with the employment service. The contracts don’t guarantee any customers, however, and the businesses offering coaches must do their own marketing.
8 minutes
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Why Swedes are aware of integration issues
What is it that the trade unions and employers in Sweden do to make them top a ranking of awareness of integration issues made by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)?
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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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Swedish employers and trade unions most aware of work place racism
Awareness of racism in the workplace is growing yet still very low in many EU countries. Swedish employers and trade unions have the highest awareness, while those in Estonia have the lowest, according to a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) report.
4 minutes
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Theme: Extending a helping hand to the jobless
Youth need to get back into jobs or education, or else we risk loosing a generation. It is therefore imperative to create job rich growth. We need to act now, and we need to help the weakest ones in the labour market first. That was the message when ILO and IMF and then the OECD,…
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Finland’s Anni Sinnemäki: passionate about an individually tailored welfare system
Finland’s Minister of Labour wants to make individuals visible. Young people should not be seen as a uniform group but as separate people with different needs. In Finland a lot of time has been spent analysing each person’s situation, and as a result, she says, the state can offer more rational measures tailored to the…
8 minutes
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Sweden’s Södertälje: a public-private solution to immigrant challenges
Södertälje in Sweden has more than 40 percent immigrants of foreign heritage. For some years the municipality received more refugees from war-ravaged Iraq than the USA and Canada combined, so it’s had its share of challenges when it comes to jobs, accommodation and traditional solutions. The result: extensive co-operation between municipality and businesses, with input…
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Hanne Bjurstrøm: Norway’s new Minister of Labour with a vision
Norway’s new Minister of Labour, Hanne Bjurstrøm, wants to sort out the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, find efficient systems to deal with social dumping and help more people with reduced work capacity. Her vision: to help anyone who is able to do some work get out of being passive recipients of state support. To…
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Norwegian tripartite agreement on sick leave
Norway’s government and the social partners have reached a new agreement aimed at reducing sick leave. The agreement covers the next four years and prolongs the 2001 Inclusive Workplace Agreement.
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