The 25,000 more temporary – Daily

Now it 232.000 temporary employees in Norway, against 207.000 at the same time last year.

It displays the most recent LFS figures from STATISTICS norway. It is in particular the four industries that stand out, where they have a higher growth in the number of temporary than others: the Health and social services, retail trade, public administration and undervisningsyrker.

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Less predictability

the Leader in Trade and Office, Trine Lise Sunde, which represents retail staff, says she is not surprised that her site stand out in a negative sense.

– This is the our people report back about. Now they are permanent jobs replaced with temporary jobs. I said this also on our profile last week: We get to hear from our members and representatives that the government’s policy works, ” says Sundnes.

In addition to the fact that temporary employment leads to greater uncertainty and less predictability for the it comes, believe Sundnes that the increased use of temporary positions has more negative effects.

– We also run the risk of what one can call innlåsingseffekter, that many refuse to switch job. There is no one who will go from a permanent job to a temporary position. If the development get a resume it looks as temporary substitutes for permanent positions, ” she says.

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Amendment

In 2015, changed the Parliament the working environment act. The past one had to have a justification for hiring someone temporarily, for example, to replace staff on leave or due to illness. After the change, it was given the opportunity to hire someone temporarily without giving a reason for up to one year. The changes entered into force on 1 July last year.

Sundnes believes that the changes in the working environment are the main reasons for the increased use of temporary positions.

the Employers have got their eyes up for it that previously was not allowed. Before could our union with the law in hand say from when the employer took themselves a little too much to the right, and point out that some were entitled to permanent employment. The type of tools we have no longer, she says.

Also in Sykepleierforbundet think the main reason for several temporary contracts due to the changes in the working environment act.

– When you have introduced more opportunities for temporary employment, it is entirely natural that it is something employers use. This we feel leads to that patients get a worse offer. In the health and care sector, it is important to build skills over time, and it is important for users with regular people. To get a more unstable employment is to be deleted is not desirable, ” says forbundsleder Eli Gunhild By.

That also government employees and employees in the Armed forces see a significant increase in the proportion of temporary surprise leader in the Norwegian Tjenestemannslag John Leirvaag. For these employees does not apply to the working environment act, but the civil service. This is not changed.

All businesses in the state sector have been subject to a flat cut in the driftsbudsjettene, a so-called effektiviseringskutt, where rumors say that one of the effects should be that you cut out temporary employees. Nevertheless, the use of temporary. It is a little odd, but it may be that the state leaders of the changing attitude to the use of temporary as a result of the changes in the working environment act, says Leirvaag.

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More reasons

the ministry of Labour and sosialminister Anniken Hauglie (H) writes in an e-mail to Dagsavisen that there can be several reasons why there are more temporary jobs now.

– Both oppmykningen of law and the business cycles can play in. The last STATISTICS-the figures show an increase in employment. It is, admittedly, uncertain figures, but the positive numbers. But to the extent that temporary employment contributes to the fact that several are given the opportunity to try themselves in the labour market and gain a foothold in the is it good and the very purpose of the legislative amendment, she writes.

One of the main arguments for the introduction of general access to temporary contracts was to provide more opportunity to get a foot in the labour market. It is an argument Hauglie repeat.

– Regular employment will continue to be the general rule, but the goal of a more flexible policy is that more will come in the job. We follow closely with the developments around temporary employment, hiring and other tilknytningsformer in the workplace through several research projects. And we cooperate closely with the parties in the workplace about this follow-up, type arbeidsministeren.

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