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Job-related Swedish language training boosts employment
Several larger municipalities in Sweden are making Swedish lessons for immigrants more targeted to the labour market. Language lessons are mixed with practical learning. Örebro municipality west of Stockholm represents one example where vocational education is mixed with language lessons.
6 minutes
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Finland demands strong language skills
Finnish can be a difficult language to learn. Many immigrants have found out the hard way. To get a job you need very good spoken and written Finnish. It is crucial to invest in language skills in order to fully take part in Finnish society.
4 minutes
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Nokia’s scraps mobile ecosystem in fight to survive
Nokia is shedding thousands of staff world-wide – the equivalent of one in ten workers within its mobile telephone business. The move is part of Nokia’s attempt to remain in profit and improve the growth outlook within a completely new technological ecosystem.
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Temporary work agencies: misfits in Nordic working life?
This year will see the implementation of the EU directive on temporary agency work which is meant to improve labour mobility and facilitate the growth in temporary work agencies. It will also lay down demands for equal treatment of permanent staff and workers recruited through temporary work agencies.
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Time for transnational collective agreements?
This year workers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will be told how many shares they have earned in the French corporation Suez S.A.
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Challenge to Finland’s health sector “not due to lack of resources”
Finland’s health and social care sector is facing major challenges. But this is not about a lack of resources. Systems and processes need an overhaul to allow doctors and nurses to work with what they have been trained for: to take care of people, Finland’s Minister of Social Affairs and Health Juha Rehula tells Nordic…
5 minutes
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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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OECD warning to Sweden on unemployment
The OECD praised the Swedish economy in its economic report on 20 January. But there was also a warning about Sweden’s high unemployment rate and the risk of a two tier labour market.
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Soft skills needed for the new White and Green jobs
The EU Commission has presented a new agenda for new skills and jobs. During the economic crisis there are still two kinds of jobs that are in extra demand – the white and the green ones.
4 minutes
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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