Further 500 may lose their job in Statoil – Dagbladet.no

In June last year it became clear that Statoil will cut up to 1,500 permanent employees and 525 consultants by the end of 2016.

In February the company announced that the cuts target, which includes both operating costs and investment, stepped up by 50 percent from 2016.

but denies that this will increase job cuts this year, but it should still have been provisionally considered that the new review could involve 400 to 500 new, future job cuts, writes Stavanger Aftenblad.

Industry Energy expects job cuts on the shelf, this will happen through pensions.

The number of alerts about possible layoffs and layoffs remains high. In March received Nav 4400 alerts, 1,400 more than a year ago. So far this year Nav received 14,700 notifications of possible layoffs and layoffs. At the same time last year the figure was 10,000.

– The large amount of alerts we receive confirmation that we must expect a continued rise in unemployment, said Labor and Welfare Director Sigrun Vågeng, in a statement.

There are still Rogaland who are most at risk, with termination notices and layoffs over 1-200 people in March.

It is the lowest number since August last year, but still over 200 more than the same period in 2015. Only companies that plan to terminate or lay off 10 or more employees who must notify Nav beforehand.

(NTB)