Following recent scandals over social dumping by private contractors, the Fagforbundet municipal union reports that the government is determined to maintain and improve a regulatory framework to protect contractors’ employees, based on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 94, that was introduced into Norwegian law in 2008. The ESA, the body that monitors legislation in the European Economic Area, argues that Convention 94 conflicts with EEA/EU rules and so the government is looking at new legislation in response to these criticisms (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 4 June 2011).
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/436
Norwegian: http://www.frifagbevegelse.no/meninger/article5704445.ece
This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.