{"id":457,"date":"2010-08-03T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-08-03T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T19:02:06","slug":"norwegian-labor-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/norwegian-labor-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Labor Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although jeg har ikke begynt \u00e5 jobbe <\/strong>(I haven\u00b4t started working) yet (and probably won\u00b4t \u00a0for another month-I finally applied for my arbeidstillatelse <\/strong>(work visa) today, I have the sense that there can\u00b4t be many other countries in the world that boast the kind of labor laws that Norway does.<\/p>\n

The Norwegian arbeidsdag <\/strong>(work day) is i gjennomsnitt<\/strong> (on average) 37.5 timer<\/strong> (hours) and cannot exceed 8 timer<\/strong> per day. \u00a0Most Americans I know work quite a bit more than 40 timer<\/strong> per week-maybe not so much in the current \u00f8konomi<\/strong> (economy), but otherwise, yes. \u00a0Most butikker<\/strong> (stores), tjenester<\/strong> (services), and skoler<\/strong> (schools) don\u00b4t start\/open until sometime after 8 in the morning and they stenger<\/strong> (close) around 4pm, maybe 6pm. \u00a0So the arbeidsdag<\/strong> and skoledag<\/strong> is much shorter here than it is in the U.S. for example.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most attractive perk of working in Norway is the amount of ferie<\/strong> (vacation) one receives. \u00a0Arbeidstakere<\/strong> (employees) are granted 1 month and 1 day of vacation every year and up to 16 days of paid sykemelding<\/strong> (sick leave). \u00a0I worked at my last job in the U.S. for almost 2 years and I got 10 days of paid ferie<\/strong> and could take up to 8 days of sykemelding<\/strong>. \u00a0So, I got about half of the perks in the U.S. than I would get if I worked a normal full-time job here in Norway. \u00a0I will be working as a l\u00e6rervikar<\/strong> (substitute teacher), so I get the liberty of choosing when I want to work and when I want to have ferie<\/strong>, I just don\u00b4t get paid for the time that I don\u00b4t work.<\/p>\n

Oh, and another unbelievable thing the Norwegian state does for it\u00b4s sick arbeidstakere <\/strong>who suffer from psoriasis, for example, is get this-sends them to the south (Spain or Greece, somewhere warm) so they can be treated by the sun. \u00a0That would NEVER happen in the U.S. as far as I know.<\/p>\n

As far as protection for arbeidstakere<\/strong>, Norwegian labor laws strictly forbid any sort of discrimination based on religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, etc. \u00a0The majority of arbeidstakere<\/strong> in Norway belong to a union and are entitled to mandatory mediation in labor disputes.<\/p>\n

I want to start working!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although jeg har ikke begynt \u00e5 jobbe (I haven\u00b4t started working) yet (and probably won\u00b4t \u00a0for another month-I finally applied for my arbeidstillatelse (work visa) today, I have the sense that there can\u00b4t be many other countries in the world that boast the kind of labor laws that Norway does. The Norwegian arbeidsdag (work day)…<\/p>\n

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