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Ministry of Labour launches vocational training campaign

The campaign is the latest in a series of political initiatives aimed at improving the Danish vocational training system. Throughout the second half of the 1990s, the Danish Government has reformed the system by increasing its market and demand orientation, accompanied by increased financial

27 ožujka 1997
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Ageing workforce
Health and well-being at work

1996 saw the lowest number of unofficial strikes in the 1990s

According to the yearly wage statistics from the Danish Employers' Confederation (DA), 1996 was the most conflict-free year for the private sector labour market in the 1990s. From 1995 to 1996, the number of unofficial strikes - defined as those in contravention of a collective agreement - fell from

27 ožujka 1997
Article

Home-based telework on the increase

According to the study/, Analysis of the prevalence of home-based telework in Denmark,/ carried out by Andersen Management International for the Ministry of Research and Information Technology, it is estimated that the potential number of people carrying out home-based telework will increase over

27 ožujka 1997
Article

Wage bargaining begins in the private sector

Wage bargaining in the private sector commenced on 10 March 1997 with negotiations between the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) and theConfederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (NHO). So far the question of voluntary early retirement has been the most difficult issue and, after

27 ožujka 1997
Article

Offshore oil workers' union affiliates to the Confederation of Vocational Unions

The previously independent employee organisation, The Federation of Offshore Workers Trade Unions (OFS), has decided to affiliate to The Confederation of Vocational Unions (YS) from March 1997.

27 ožujka 1997
Article

NHO reports increase in membership

The number of member companies of the Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry (NHO) increased by around 2,000 during 1996. NHO aims for a further growth in membership towards the year 2000.

27 ožujka 1997
Article

Determining terms of employment: works council or union?

A current bill amending the 1971 Works Councils Act has focused attention on the increasingly important role played by Dutch works councils in the negotiation of terms of employment. However, although the function of the trade unions is being somewhat eroded, even in the area of determining primary

27 ožujka 1997
Article
Collective bargaining
Employee representation
Social partners
Labour law
Labour and social regulation

Building industry agreement increases pay and flexibility

In the new collective agreement in the Dutch building industry, signed in March 1997, a relatively large pay increase has been matched by a degree of increased flexibility regarding the use of temporary employment agency workers and the rules governing working hours.

27 ožujka 1997
Article

Akzo Nobel abandons a standard 36-hour week

Akzo Nobel has announced that it will not observe its 1995 collective agreement and that it will abandon the introduction of a standard 36-hour week as of 1 July 1997. Its new proposals have divided the unions.

27 ožujka 1997
Article

Is "Investors in People" solving the UK training problem?

At the end of February 1997 the education and employment minister, James Paice, was warning that "people ignore at their peril the value of investing in learning", arguing that too many employers still do not realise the value of investing in their employees. He went on to say that action should be

27 ožujka 1997
Article
Skills and training
Employment and labour markets