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26/10/2005.
In October 2005, a new coalition government of the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party took office in Norway. One of the aims of the new government, which has a majority in parliament, is to reverse previously approved changes to the legal framework on temporary employment and overtime. It also plans new initiatives in areas such as gender equality, working time and 'social dumping' .
In spring 2005, parliament approved a number of amendments to work environment legislation. These changes envisaged a revision of the Act relating to the Working Environment and Workers' Protection (AML), and several were controversial, especially one making it easier for employers to use temporary employees. Moreover, in 2003 statutory overtime rules were changed, providing a significant liberalisation of the use of overtime. In the process leading up to the revised work environment legislation, trade union organisations called for the overtime rules to be returned to the more restrictive situation that existed prior to 2003, but failed to obtain acceptance for their demand.
In the coalition parties' joint platform, the incoming government has made explicit its intention to amend the approved revisions to the AML, as follows:
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the rules on temporary employment will revert to those in the original AML;
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the rules on overtime will revert to the situation prior to the 2003 amendments;
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changes to the rules on dismissals and termination of employment contracts will be reversed. An employee will still have a right to maintain his or her employment relationship while a case regarding dismissal is being determined by a court of law, also in those cases where the employee has lost in a lower court.
Source: Eiro
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