The Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs has considered a private member's bill from seven MPs seeking to relax rules on hiring temporary workers. A majority from the Labour Party, Socialist Left Party, and Red Party recommends rejecting the proposal, citing evidence that the 2023 tightening of these rules has reduced temporary hiring and increased permanent employment. A minority from the Progress Party and Conservative Party has put forward four alternative proposals asking the government to restore the rules as they stood before 2023.
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Parliament calls on the government to rule out further tightening or expanded restrictions on temporary labour hiring during the current four-year term.
Parliament calls on the government to propose measures allowing businesses to hire temporary workers as needed, in line with the rules that applied from 2019.
Parliament calls on the government to lift the ban on hiring temporary workers from staffing agencies for construction work on building sites in Oslo, Viken, and the former Vestfold region.
Parliament calls on the government to present legislation to the Storting by June 2026 that reverses the changes in Parliamentary Resolution 27: Amendments to the Working Environment Act, etc. (hiring and leasing from staffing agencies) (2022–2023), restoring the rules for temporary labour to their pre-April 1, 2023 form, namely that hiring employees from businesses whose purpose is to provide staffing services shall be permitted even when the work is of a temporary nature (cf. Working Environment Act § 14-9 (2) letter a 'when the work is of a temporary nature').
Document 8:43 S (2025–2026) – Private member's bill from MPs Anna Molberg, Amalie Gunnufsen, Erlend Svardal Bøe, Margret Hagerup, Henrik Asheim, Henrik Gottfries Kierulf, and Mahmoud Farahmand on rules for temporary labour hiring – is not adopted.