Non-standard employment

The issue of involuntary part-time work [1] has been on the agenda of Norway’s social partners for some time. The country has many part-time employees, particularly in female-dominated occupations such as nursing. One in three employed women aged 25–54 works part time. Furthermore, a document (in

The law was passed by the National Assembly [1] on 26 October 2010. However, a week later, on 2 November, the National Council [2] voted to delay the law, urging the National Assembly to reconsider its decision (*SI0207103F* [3]). Nevertheless, on 16 November 2010, the parliament passed the law for

The EU-level social partners in the hotels and restaurants sector signed a joint declaration on undeclared (239Kb PDF) [1] work on 3 December 2010. It took the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT [2]) and employer organisation Hotels, Restaurant and Cafés in

On 1 February 2011, the Federal Employment Agency (BA [1]) reported that unemployment had risen by 0.7 percentage points to 7.9% in January 2011. However, when compared to the unemployment figures of the previous year, 270,000 fewer people were registered as unemployed. BA attributes the lower

The first assessment report (in French, 3.24Mb PDF) [1] of the self-contractor’s scheme, drafted under the chairmanship of Senator Philippe Marini, was published on 22 July 2010 and the second report (in French, 2.37Mb PDF) [2], published by the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Employment, was

When the impact of the financial and economic crisis hit Denmark in autumn 2008 many Danish companies in manufacturing and construction had already started restructuring [1], either through internal reorganisation or by moving production offshore to low-wage countries. The crisis was unexpected by

On 24 November 2010, in the presence of the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Boyko Borisov, and the Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Totyu Mladenov, trade unions and employer associations signed two national agreements, one regulating homeworking [1] and a second dealing with the organisation and

Before the onset of the economic crisis, temporary agency work [1] (TAW) had been booming in Austria with an all-time high of 80,000–90,000 temporary agency workers in 2008, accounting for about 2.4% of the dependently employed workforce. With the recovery in the economy, there was an increase in