Norwegian Research Landscape Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad, senior adviser Research Council of Norway.
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Setting wages in NorwayNorwegian system for wage formation
– important preconditions
President Kari Sollien
Akademikerne
Reykjavik November 11th, 2016
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To understand the Norwegian model
� Trust and cooperation are basic values at all levels
� Norway has a wide scope of two- and tripartitecooperation, not only wages, for example:
� Pension/Occupational pension
� Sick-leave; Letter of Intent regarding a More Inclusive Working Life, the IA-Agreement
� Egalitarian wage structures are considered an advantage, the disagreements are basically about to what extent and at what level bargaining should take place
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Akademikernes wage policy..
� Our major goal is a wage policy based ondesentraliced/local collective agreements. This is theonly way wages can be used as a means to achieveresults for the company/enterprise.
Reality?..
� In the private sector wages for our groups are set at thelocal/company level
� Public sector – now also mainly local, this has been a long way..
� Exception: Municipality of Oslo - centralised
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Important structures
� Tripartite bodies – national level
� Government Contact Comittee
� TBU – permanent committee
� Working-life council
� Holden III 2013 - ad hoc committee
� Etc..
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The participants
� Since 2000: Participants in the national tripartitedialogue are the government, 4 employer organisations and 4 employee organisations
Women in charge
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Important instituitons
� Important institutions
� The National Mediator
� The National Wages Board
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� Norway has an open economy. Wage settlements must be based on what the international competitive sector can afford
� A major principle for all collective agreements in Norway is coordination and commitment to thetrendsetting industries
� Wage settlements in the «sheltered» sector/public sector must be based onthe competitive sector
The Norwegian model for wage settlements – trendsetting industries model
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� Wage growth for workers (white collarsincluded) in manufacturing firms affiliatedto NHO ( the largest employersorganisation) sets the norm/guideline for all pay growth
� The trendsetting industries are obligedto communicate an estimate of highcredibility to the rest of the social partners
� This guideline is neither top nor bottom, but a norm to adjust to in the long run
� The guideline only concerns wage growth, not profile
The Norwegian model for wage settlements – trendsetting industries model
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This model has so far led to
� Economic growth
� Low unemployment rates
� Even distribution of income
� High real wage growth
� We have avoided a wage –price spiral
� The Norwegian model –robust also during crisis
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� This guideline is neither top nor bottom, but a norm to adjust to over time
� The guideline only concerns wage growth, not profile
� Coordination takes place both at central and local level
� High level and broad scope of local negotiations and local union involvement
Important preconditions to Akademikerne
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Private sector – collective bargaining
� Annual, collective bargaining at company level about thesize of a lump sum based om pre – agreed criteria
� Pre-agreed criteria: usually company finances, productivity, expectations for the future and the companys competitiveness
� Normally peace clause
� The unions prepare their representatives
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Health trust
sector
Governmental
sector
KS – Municipal
sector
Oslo
Municipality
Public sector - collective agreements
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Public sector before..
� Centralised systems
� Bargaining had the function of reallocation instead ofusing wages as an instrument to achieve public sectorgoals
� Too much political involvement
� This is today’s situation in the Municipality of Oslo, butin other aereas we have been able to change things
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Public sector – our main goal
� Akademikerne was founded on thebasis of achieving collective localagreements to benefit
� our members wage
� the employers ability to recruit and keep skilled workers
� And also because the government is not a unified business, it is a lot ofindividual needs, which is best taken care of locally betweenemployers and the workers union representatives
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The Municipality of Oslo –major remaining challenge
Akademikerne
YS Unio
LO
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What can be learned from Norway?
�National coordination does not meancentralization or profile dictate
�Trendsetting industries should give a guideline, not an exact result
�Local level is important, coordination can takeplace on local level
�Akademikerne in Norway has succededbuilding a wage setting system for public sectorindependent of other, larger employeeconfederations