Norway: new measures to facilitate immigrants’ access to employment

On 8 April, the Norwegian minister of employment and inclusion Tonje Brenna announced several amendments to the law on the integration of immigrants in order to facilitate their access to employment and skills training. “Our objective is clear: to get more immigrants into work,” she said. To this end, she proposes to make the “introduction programme” dedicated to people with refugee status or who have obtained the right to residence for humanitarian reasons following an asylum application,...