The Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs has endorsed a private member's bill from Marie Sneve Martinussen and Seher Aydar to reverse earlier erosions of the Working Environment Act. The committee is calling on the government to propose three concrete reforms: tightening the conditions for averaging working hours, extending protections against night and Sunday work to retail employees, and reversing an expansion of night work between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. According to the committee, working time rules should protect workers from arrangements that could harm their health and safety, and must preserve balance between work, rest, and leisure.
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The Storting calls on the government to amend the Working Environment Act so that applications to the Labour Inspection Authority for averaged working hours—justified on the grounds that workers are assigned away from their home base and need rest periods—must require that the employer has assigned the workers to those jobs.
The Storting calls on the government to propose legislation ensuring that retail employees are protected by the Working Environment Act against night and Sunday work.
The Storting calls on the government to propose legislation reversing the expanded permission to agree to night work between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.