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Here’s how Tekna can help you at your next salary negotiation

...order to start a workplace group Public sector: a minimum of 2 members to start a workplace group Tekna’s ... Tekna’s chief negotiators in the private, government and municipal sectors are clear on one thing: Salary levels...

Questions you should ask about getting a bonus at work

Many Tekna members are part of a workplace bonus plan. Keep reading to learn more about bonuses: bonus ... bonus,bonus arbeidsforhold,bonus lønn Råd og tips Workplace bonuses are often confirmed in writing; sometimes...

Travel time is work time

...outside your normal working hours to a different workplace than your usual one, is this considered work time ... time? Or is it travel time? And where do you draw the line exactly that shows when you’re at work? reisetid...

Working in Norway: The Colleague Conversation

Consider the Norwegian term medarbeidersamtale. It’s one of those long words where Norwegians stick two ... lot in this country, much to the confusion of foreigners trying to learn the language. Anyway, roughly translated...

Why You Should Say ‘Sorry’ at Work

...a few sticky workplace situations. Once again while running a course recently, I was the one who learned ... something new while trying to teach something old. The old in this case is using a version of ‘sorry’ at...

Norway: Happy OL Medal Count = Happy Norwegian Manager?

Need something special from your Norwegian boss? Strike while the OL-iron is hot! How so, you say? Well ... statistics: Norway now holds a superior lead in the medal count Yes, little Norway, with a population...

Integration: What does it mean to you?

...communication, the topic of integration was quickly brought up by one of the non-Norwegians in the classroom ... but had just reacted to a question I’d written on the board before starting class: What does getting …...

Want to work in Norway? This is what you need to know

...in learning more about the requirements for residence permits to look at the UDI website – which is available ... To shed some light on the situation, we asked Vidar Hegge, senior adviser at The Directorate of Immigration...

How pensions work in Norway

These are the things you need to know about before starting work in Norway. Working in Norway Before ... how the Norwegian pension system works here. Your pension comes from three separate sources: The National...

Get started with your membership in Tekna

Representatives

...representatives! The year 2019 was the year of the union representatives in Tekna. The overall goal of the campaign ... for each representative in addition to promoting the importance of their work. Get better acquainted with...

This is how you get elected as a Tekna Representative

...representatives at your workplace Being a Tekna representative at a workplace is a voluntary, elected ... role in what is called the "Norwegian Model" among employees, employers and the government. Being a Tekna...

Working Overtime While Living Abroad

...there’s no need to compensate them in accordance with the usual rates for this type of work. overtid på tjenestereise ... many cases illegal. What do the regulations say? Generally speaking, the Working Environment Act, including...

Business Culture Clash: What’s in a (LinkedIn) photo?

LinkedIn course in Norway last week, and had gotten to the point where I put up a slide filled with photos I’d ... attire,international workplace,LinkedIn profile,Norwegian culture,Norwegian workplace,working in norway...

Sickness and Sick Leave

...leave, a part-time leave should be the first alternative chosen. The degree to which you can perform work ... depends on 1) the nature of your illness and 2) the possibility of accommodating your workplace to your illness...

Working Remotely: Is it your right?

...in Norway In Norway we work under the ideas included in The Norwegian Model. Though when I’ve googled this ... this term, it often comes up as The Nordic Model, so it’s hard to know which of these countries really...

North Sea Decommissioning: Norway’s New Oil Adventure?

...decommissioning,Norwegian economy,Norwegian oil industry,Norwegian workplace,the norwegian model, Working ... myself, I was easily impressed by the enormous numbers I came across when the word ‘decommissioning’ popped...

Important political breakthroughs made in spring 2021

...political breakthroughs in areas including the workplace, competency, technology and sustainability, ... Right to unemployment compensation during schooling The temporary plan that was implemented in spring 2020...

Integration at Work: Simply the Best?

...be familiar with the funny ad campaigns run by one of the grocery chains here. In the TV ads, some humorous ... out in the extreme, yet always ends with this message on the screen: “the simple is often the best.”...

Record growth – Tekna membership passes 100,000

000 members. In the past year alone, it’s gained 10,000 new members. Aktuelt Tekna is the country’s largest ... and shows that an increasing number of people see the value of being in a trade union, declares Tekna President...

You’re not safe from attacks on your home office – and have to take this stuff seriously!

...vice-president Elisabet Haugsbø feels strongly that all Norwegians should know how to protect themselves from becoming ... influence in the USA (or trying to, at any rate) and people getting scammed – while maybe thinking at the same...

ICT and software engineers have lowest rate of trade union membership

These are the professions behind the numbers The numbers for trade union membership broken down into ... show which trade union the respective professionals are members of; neither is the length of their education...

– A simple country boy from Sunnmøre

Grøvik was going to introduce himself to the delegates at the annual ‘R-meeting’, he called himself «a ... passionate about volunteer service, The Norwegian Model and the green shift. Aktuelt Recently, Lars Olav...

Phone Follow-up: Job Seeking in a Perfect World

...as a job seeker, it’d be that whenever you called the organization where you’ve either applied or are thinking ... whoever answers the phone that day. You’d hear a friendly voice giving the name of the place and asking...

Are you (at all) interested in what you do at work?

...international workplace,networking skills,professional development,the Norwegian workplace,working in norway ... to make yourself heard, but meeting someone for the first time, for instance at a work-related conference...