– It will be a nice cake!
In the morning there cake and last day on the job for civil engineer Marianne Aase (46 ) GE Oil & amp; Gas in Sandvika. The cake is nice because Monday she goes right over the new job in consultancy Sweco.
In September she got the message that GE would downsize with around 200 in Sandvika. Streamlining and cost resulted in a job offer for GE in Bristol, England in English conditions Aase. Alternatively, she could take severance package.
– I started to become lightning cursed. How I got the disappointment out of the body. Then took the engineer in me. New job was an issue I had to arrange, Aase says.
She is not alone in today’s Oil Norway. Nearly all companies are cutting the oil.
High Contrast
But where is the oil workers who lose their jobs? The contrast between emergency messages and figures speak is very large – at least so far:
- According brokerage DNB Markets is it cut around 11,000 oil jobs since the start of 2014.
- But unemployment does not rise. The sum of unemployed and people on measures registered with Nav is now lower than a year ago, but rose by 900 from December to January.
The Norwegian economy is in a big restructuring which many must find something else. On the surface, flexibility near perfect.
Yesterday new unemployment figures for December from Statistics Norway (SSB). Unemployment rose slightly, while the number of people in employment increased by 25,000 from September to December.
– It’s surprisingly strong growth in the number of jobs, but the numbers are uncertain, says senior economist Kjersti Haugland DNB Markets.
A great diversity
Aftenposten spoke with than number of people sitting close to what happens in the oil industry.
The oil intervenes everywhere and labor around the oil is thus very composed: It includes industrial workers in shipyards in Western Norway, engineers at offices in Oslo, permanent employees, temporary employees, hired labor, employed, consultants, subcontractors, under subcontracts, Norwegians and foreigners.
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- Hired Norwegian and foreign workers covered much of the top investment last year and in 2013. Many projects went abroad.
- They hired, which often are used to adapt, losing jobs now. Many foreigners go home or move easily into other business.
- Many of the redundant getting themselves now working in sectors under oil boom lacked engineers.
– We see no great drama. Many come quickly find a new job. Other industries have long had problems with obtaining engineers. Our impression is that many also get jobs in municipalities, says senior adviser John Sørbø Labour and Welfare Administration Nav.
“Here I am!”
Aase has worked with contracts and procurement for the construction of equipment which will remain on the seabed. She used every conceivable opportunity to promote their expertise.
– I called around and said: “Here I am! I am free,” she says.
After three rounds of interview was the new job in boxing in December. Monday she begins as supply manager for major projects in the engineering firm Sweco.
– I think it gets much transport projects. It will be interesting to use the expertise of a new industry, she said.
Applicable people
Sørbø Nav says oil employees have useful skills that can be used in many places.
– Had such been a crisis in the field of building industry, it would proved much clearer through increased unemployment, says Sørbø.
But it would be an economic under about oil cuts not before or since shows in unemployment figures . It also believes Nav, and predicts that there will be an overall about 7,000 more registered unemployed this year and a further 8,000 more unemployed next year. Last year there were on average 75,000 unemployed.
Got fine jobs
Aase says that the project managers at GE stopped at year end.
– Very many had acquired new jobs, and it was fine jobs. Some of those who went took second clever people at GE to his new workplace, she says.
Aase says that salary in the new job matches the salary she has now.
– Wages in the oil industry and other industries are more equal than many people think, she says.
Erling Grain Kveen director of construction and industrial staffing company Adecco.
– The past year has been a halving the number of people being rented from us within the industry. Hired labor is the first to be cut out.
– Where are them?
– They wait for new assignments or taking other jobs. Some take a break after earning good money. All this includes both Norwegians and foreigners, he said.
Hiring of labor from Eastern Europe is common to take the tops of the shipyards.
– They are here to work and leaving home when there is no more to do, says Korn Kveen.
About half of the 20,000 hired in the oil industries will lose their jobs this year, thus taking the entire brunt of downsizing.
It shows estimates from trade Norwegian Industry, which has asked its member companies hiring plans for 2015. Director Knut Sunde in Norwegian Industry says that many yards taught a lesson in the 1990s.
– Then went staffing violently up and down with permanent employees. Afterwards there was a common recognition in the clubs, municipalities and businesses that it was better with a core staffing and taking peaks with hired labor, he said.
Sunde says that there is a separate labor between the shipyards. – They send people to each other as needed, he said.
Aker Solutions’ yard in Egersund is a good example. Where staffing has gone from 2000 in spring 2010, 400 in the autumn of the same year, and to 2,900 in 2013.
Bjørn Christian Bjornsen Division of staffing company Experis Engineering, saying that many of the oil comes to them.
– We get most of them into new job. There is still a great need for engineers and their expertise in construction, road and rail to mention something, he said.
But it is not certain that the days are as good as in the oil boom.
– We see clearly that several oil and gas searching tasks within the public, but in some cases it is yet a gap between wage expectations and what the public will pay, says Bjornsen.
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