On 15 December, Norway’s employment minister Kjersti Stenseng, of the Labour Party, presented measures aimed at reducing the length of sick leave. “The rate of absenteeism due to illness in Norway is too high and must be reduced,” she said. Employees and employers could therefore be subject to stricter rules. To “facilitate” the return to work, Stenseng proposes to “specify in law” the obligation for employees on sick leave to return to work “as soon as possible and within eight weeks at the la
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Nathalie Tran
Editor-in-Chief Mind HR