Wednesday strikes LO and the unions against proposed new labor laws. In this connection the NHO conducted a survey made by Sentio Research among 1,000 in a representative sample of the population over 15 years, and among business leaders.
Flexible working is one of conflict issues in the proposal for a new labor laws. It is not something they asked seems to be so skeptical. 48 percent strongly agree with the statement that flexible working is a benefit for the employee. 19 percent partially agrees, totaling 67 percent. 9 percent disagree completely or partially disagreed.
The survey also shows:
- Only one in ten under 30 think temporary employment can lead to brutalization of work.
- The companies are, perhaps not entirely surprising, positive: one in four think several temporary positions will make it easier for them to consider new appointments.
- 40 per cent of respondents completely or partially agree that temporary appointments makes it easier to get more into working life.
Barber Randi Askim Eriksen at Petite Sandvika is one of them. She operates four hairdressers with a total of 30 employees, all permanent employees.
– A way into
– Those who want to start their own, have great benefits a softening of the current rules. In the initial phase, it is risky to employ many, she says.
Hairdressing Master does not want to replace many of its employees with temporary but think more could have had the opportunity to work with her if the changes in the Working Environment Act are implemented.
– Several who do not speak Norwegian come back lounge and asked for a job. Then it is difficult to give them permanent employment, but if I had the option of a trial could functioned as a way into the workplace, says Askim Eriksen.
Here is LO arguments against temporary employment
Most importantly for the youngest
CEO Kristin Skogen Lund NHO says that the survey shows that Norwegians have a balanced view of the proposed new labor laws.
– A large majority believes that a flexible working will be a benefit for the employee. This measure is also important for employers and it is very gratifying that population felt so positively to this, she says.
She is also pleased that the youngest are the most positive and temporary employment.
– This shows that the concern is lower for those who are unemployed than those within the workplace. It is important because it is the youngest who primarily will notice these changes, she said.
“scaremongering”
She responds that LO spreading untruths about the changes, that employees will be required to work more overtime without overtime pay.
– I suspect it is political motives behind Confederation scaremongering. Meanwhile they absent when it comes to suggestions for what to do to create more jobs.
– Requires modern working life that make such changes?
– We believe that the changes to working hours is essential. Temporality would create new jobs for a certain type of businesses. We also know that the companies themselves prefer permanent employees, says the director.
She believes proportion temporary will not stretch longer than ten percent from the current average of 8.3. She stresses that one can change the rules back if the measures do not work.
– There is another argument that it is worth testing out, she said.
More power with employers
Førstesekretær Peggy Helsen Følsvik LO believes NHO Survey does not appear what the changes mean in practice.
– Flexible working is feasible also within legal limits. The NHO and the Government wants is to give the employer more power to control the flexibility, she says.
LO points out that there is no research that supports NHO assertion that temporary employment will provide more a way into in working life.
– When Bondevik government went into this was argumentetet high unemployment, now the argument that employment must be readjusted. We have no evidence that temporary employment gives more employees, she said.
The health FOLVIK fear that the increase in the number of temporary employees will be much larger than it Skogen Lund predicts.
Although salon owner Randi Askim Eriksen Sandvika believes the law must change in line with developments in the workplace, she does not believe companies can make shop on a continuous stream of temporary employment.
– My clients want to cut off at the fixed hairdresser they tend to have and so it must remain, she said.
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