{"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":"<p>Although<strong> 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<strong> 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<p>The Norwegian<strong> arbeidsdag <\/strong>(work day) is<strong> i gjennomsnitt<\/strong> (on average) 37.5 <strong>timer<\/strong> (hours) and cannot exceed 8<strong> timer<\/strong> per day. \u00a0Most Americans I know work quite a bit more than 40 <strong>timer<\/strong> per week-maybe not so much in the current <strong>\u00f8konomi<\/strong> (economy), but otherwise, yes. \u00a0Most <strong>butikker<\/strong> (stores), <strong>tjenester<\/strong> (services), and <strong>skoler<\/strong> (schools) don\u00b4t start\/open until sometime after 8 in the morning and they <strong>stenger<\/strong> (close) around 4pm, maybe 6pm. \u00a0So the <strong>arbeidsdag<\/strong> and <strong>skoledag<\/strong> is much shorter here than it is in the U.S. for example.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most attractive perk of working in Norway is the amount of<strong> ferie<\/strong> (vacation) one receives. \u00a0<strong>Arbeidstakere<\/strong> (employees) are granted 1 month and 1 day of vacation every year and up to 16 days of paid <strong>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 <strong>ferie<\/strong> and could take up to 8 days of <strong>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<strong> l\u00e6rervikar<\/strong> (substitute teacher), so I get the liberty of choosing when I want to work and when I want to have <strong>ferie<\/strong>, I just don\u00b4t get paid for the time that I don\u00b4t work.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and another unbelievable thing the Norwegian state does for it\u00b4s sick <strong>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<p>As far as protection for <strong>arbeidstakere<\/strong>, Norwegian labor laws strictly forbid any sort of discrimination based on religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, etc. \u00a0The majority of <strong>arbeidstakere<\/strong> in Norway belong to a union and are entitled to mandatory mediation in labor disputes.<\/p>\n<p>I want to start working!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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