The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EUROFOUND) is a triparty EU Agency that provides knowledge to assist in the development of better social, employment and work-related policies. The work is done with the assistance of national correspondents in the EU Member States, and the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion has granted Fafo the task as the national correspondent of Norway,

Future of the Norwegian wage formation.

The project will evaluate the regulation three-shift rotas as regulated in the Working Environment Act § 10-4 (6).

The project will study Unio's role as a central organisation for twenty years, with emphasis on co-determination and influence. The results will be presented in a report and a presentation at Unio's congress in December 2021.

A study of the ICT policy and sourcing strategies in four state agencies and four municipalities. The project will identify some of the key drivers of sourcing and give examples of how the agencies are working to develop secure and efficient ICT sourcing.

The basic agreement i state sector - the basic agreement provides the rules and regulations on social dialogue in state enterprises. The project aim to evaluate the modus operandi of the agreement.

In 2015, the conservative government under Erna Solberg introduced automatic cuts of productivity dividends (ACPD) as a "debureaucratisation and effectivity reform" (the ABE-reform). The reform entails an annual cut in the state operating budgets of 0.5 percent per year. Does this reform impact the government’s work against work-related crime in Norway?

How is the de-bureaucratization and streamlining reform (ABE reform) implemented in state agencies and how does it affect daily work?

The project will map schemes and regulations that encourage post-qualifying and continuing education education and training programs by examining a selection of collective agreements, including state sector, municipality, Oslo municipality and the health care sector, and a selection of other agreements in related sectors (NHO, Virke).

The project will provide a history of 100 years of LO's legal department, 1922-2022.

The aim of the project is to describe and analyze how the right to negotiate collective agreements and to maintain union representatives is regulated in the finance sector in Norway.

History of the Norwegian Labour Court

The Norwegian Labour Court was established in 1916 and will in 2016 celebrate its 100th anniversary. In this project we write the history of the Labour Court. The Labour Court has filled an important function in an increasingly complex and regulated society and working life. The Labour Court has been an important tool in keeping peace and resolve disputes between the social partners, and the court and the social partners have mutually influenced each other. The history of the Norwegian Labour Court will illuminate the court's inner life, the people that filled its positions, the interaction between judges and judges appointed based on nomination of labour market organizations, and the internal organization of the court and its relation to other judicial bodies.

This project will stydy time use among employees in childcare services (for choldren between 0-6 years in the municipality sector. Previously there have been research on 'time thieves' among employees in the schools, but not in childcare. A concern i s that the educated teachers/leaders in childcare may not spend sufficiently amounts of time on face-to face interaction with children and didactic activities. This project explores time use based on a variety of research methods, whith emphasis on c ase studies and qualitative interviews, but also a small survey.