National report Norway: Legal analysis part 1

The legal work package (WP 2) of the INDI-project will present a legal analysis that aims to evaluate the impact of EU and national legal frameworks as barriers or facilitators for inclusion of non-standard workers in social dialogue, with a focus on reform recommendations. With a four-step analysis, this will contribute to the realization of the aim of the INDI-project of creating a more cohesive, effective, and legally robust envi-ronment for social dialogue, by addressing and proposing enhancements to the existing legal framework.

Part 1 is the first step and focuses on the existing legal framework at a national level, with an aim to identify and compare legal obstacles and facilitators for access to social dialogue for non-standard workers in selected national systems. The analytical frame-work for the analysis is presented in a separate working paper (deliverable 2.1)1 This has guided analysis of facilitators and obstacles in national law in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom. The present report is the national report from Norway (deliverable 2.2).

Part 1 will be concluded with a comparative analysis of exciting facilitators and obsta-cles in national law deliverable 2.3). Here, we will discuss commonalities and variations regarding access to social dialogue for non-standard workers with a focus on how this relates to differences in the national systems of social dialogue.
The next steps will be to examine the interplay between EU measures with potential to strengthen access to social dialogue for non-standard workers (Part 2, deliverable 2.4) and national law (Part 3, deliverable 2.5 and 2.6).

Based on this, the aim is to develop recommendations for new strategies for including non-standard workers in social dia-logue (Part 4, deliverable 2.7).