I wrote few weeks ago that the Confederation of Trade Unions in Norway
wants to fund the right to get education, that is to give people who
wants further education which is not part of their job, the right to get
this on paid leave from their work. This was the main issue in the
negotiations with the companies' organisation a short time ago.
The agreement became that this shall be settled next year.
That does not mean that the work about this issue is come to a stand
still for a year. There is a large majority in the Parliament who wants
this too, and therefore the work goes on there to both make it a right
according to the laws to get this in place both by writing this into law
and by working out arrangements that give people of all groups, not only
ordinary students, right to scholarships. All students get scholarships
which covers about 35% of their expences.
The last two year as much as about 50% of all norwegians have been
retrained or reeducated because of new technology or new organisation of
their workplace, according to "Statistik Sentralbyraa" -
URL:http://www.ssb.no/
And this have been considered a part of their work, so a continous
reeducation is going on all the time. And many groups already have these
rights that is coming into law now.
All the best
Tor Førde
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