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Law On Nav (Norwegian Labour And Welfare Act) [Nav Law]

Original Language Title: Lov om arbeids- og velferdsforvaltningen (arbeids- og velferdsforvaltningsloven) [NAV-loven]

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Law of the employment and welfare management (the labor and welfare management law) [ NAV-law ].

Date LAW-2006--06-16-20
Ministry of Work and Social Affairs
Last modified LO-2014-12-19-74 from 01.01.2015
Published In 2006 booklet 8
Istrontrecation 01.07.2006
Changing LO-2005--06-17-61
Announcement 16.06.2006
Card title NAV law

Capital overview :

Chapter 1. Foretarget and scope

SECTION 1. Formal

The purpose of the law is to add right for an effective labour and welfare management, tailored to the individual and work-life needs and based on a holistic and interarranged Applicability of the labour market law, the Medicaid Act, law 18. December 2009 # 131 about social services in the employment and welfare management and other laws that are managed by the labor and welfare management. The Working and welfare management shall meet the individual human with respect, contribute to social and economic security and promote transition to work and active business.

0 Modified by law 18 des 2009 # 131 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 18 des 2009 # 1584).
SECTION 2. Work and welfare management

The Working and welfare management is composed of the Working and welfare department and those parts of the municipal services that are part of the joint local offices, see Section 13.

Chapter 2. Working and welfare department

SECTION 3. Work and welfare department

The Working and welfare Directorate leads the Working and welfare management business. The Working and welfare director has the daily management of the Directorate.

The Etreaty shall be represented in the places that the Directorate decides, nonetheless so that the representation of local level representation should be in accordance with Section 13, jf. SECTION 14.

The Directive is the processing officer of the People's Information Act Section 2 4 and for facilitation and review of the Internet Control System after the Privacy Act Section 13 and 14 in relation to the department. The Ministry can provide regulation as closer to regulating the processing responsibility of the labor and welfare management.

SECTION 4. Work and welfare agencies master tasks

The Working and welfare department is in charge of the management of the labour market, Social Security and pension policy.

The Etreaty shall manage the working market law, the Medicaid Act, with the exception of Chapter 5, and other laws where tasks have been added to the department, ensuring the right performance of the individual. The Etreaty is in charge of following up and controlling services, benefits and payouts.

The Etreaty shall stimulate the individual standable recipient to work activity where this is possible, and provide advice and guidance to employers and workers to prevent hospital absence and outpouring from work life. The department shall further assist employment applicants with employment, assisting employers with obtaining labor, prevention and dend the damage effects of unemployment and obtain information on the labour market.

The department of the Department operates no-charge work-free.

The Ministry may impose the agency's other tasks than those that follow through this paragrafen.

The Ministry of Justice can provide regulation as in straight cases transfers the responsibility of job market measures to some municipas. In such cases, the provisions of the Law of the Department of Law shall be applicable to the The Ministry of the Ministry can in the regulation determine closer rules on organizing, governance and the relationship between state and municipal liability in such cases.

0 Modified by law 19 des 2008 number 109 (ikr. 1 jan 2009 ifg res. 19 des 2008 No. 1 1444).
SECTION 5. Delegation of the Authority

The Working and welfare Directorate can delegate its authority to underlying organs in the Working and welfare department.

SECTION 6. Human involvement

The Working and welfare department shall ensure that the representative of the users will be given the opportunity to comment in the context of planning, review and evaluation of the Department of ethics services.

SECTION 7. Taushei-liked

Any performing service or work for the Working and welfare department after this law, the secrecy of the Management Act has Section 13 to 13 e. Tausheme's work also applies to birthplace, date of birth, social security, civil affairs, civil affairs, profession, residence and work place. The provisions of the Management Act Section 13 b # 5 and 6 do not apply. It can only be made exceptions from the privilege when this follows by the provisions of others to the fifth clause or of other provisions given in or in co-law.

Information about a person can be used when working on the application of work or by the processing of labor market measures. Further, a user contact as mentioned in the Medicaid Act Section 15-12 clause has specified the name and address of single sousers receiving transition-of-person within the user contact scope. 1

Information to other stewards organs can be given when needed to promote the Working and welfare of the Company, to prevent any significant risk of life or serious damage to someone's health or to prevent any wrongful death from getting paid public funds or exempders funds from the payment to the public.

The Ministry may decide that information can be issued to public authorities in the second case than mentioned in the third clause when it is well-made that the information is necessary for these authorities to be able to resolve imposed public tasks. This still does not apply to the details of ethnicity, political or religious opinion, health conditions, abuse of drug use or sexual relationships.

Tausheme's duties after the first clause is not an obstacle to the exchange of information as provided in law 6. June 1997 No. 35 about the Mission Registry or other issue of information to the management agencies that have the home to demand information without the obstruction of secrecy.

0 Modified by law 16 jan 2009 # 5 (ikr. 1 jan 2009, see its VIII).
1 The rules of user contact have been repealifted.
SECTION 8. Mutual assistance between the Working and welfare and welfare services

The Working and welfare department shall provide social service 1 aid in matters that apply to the individual user.

The Etreaty shall in its work be aware of conditions that should lead to measures from the Social Services page, and shall of its own measures provide social service information on such conditions. Information can be provided only after consent from the user or with home law.

Information on the issue of stifling cases, performance cases and working conditions can be given without the obstacle of secrecy.

The rules of this paragrafen apply to the equivalent of the Department of ethics and duty to provide information to the municipality for use in cases of introductory after the introductory Act.

Social service duties to provide information and assistance and make statements to the department without the obstruction of secrecy, jf. The job market Act Section 19 and the Medicaid Act Section 21-5.

SECTION 9. State party position

The Working and welfare Directorate is acting on behalf of the state in lawsuits in which the item for the dispute is writing from the ordinance of the laws that are managing the work of the Working and welfare department. The same applies in other lawsuits related to the Department of ethics. The Ministry can perform on behalf of the state in individual cases.

The Working and welfare of the Department of Directorate, or the organ of the department as the Board of Directorate, is acting on behalf of the state by coercion for the namessman and other legal inaction and safeguards of claims that write themselves from the Department of Business, as well as negotiations after the debt order law.

SECTION 10. Beredery in the Working and welfare department

The Working and welfare Directorate has the responsibility of the work-out contingency plans to ensure the preservation of the business in the department by crisis in peace or war. The plans shall contain requirements for operating safety for recruitment assistance and treatment requirements for benefits and payoffs. The Directorate shall impose that there are procedures for storage of materials and equipment, and routines for exercises and training of personnel. Agreements with suppliers of goods and services to the Working and welfare department shall contain requirements for delivery skills and information security at such situations.

The Working and welfare department should assist in dealing with changes in the labour force for priority enterprises at crises in peace or war. This includes, among other things, the service of registered unemployed and volunteers who report to the department. The Working and welfare Directorate can conduct contingency planning in cooperation with staffing enterprises and other landlords of labor. The Ministry of Justice can in regulation give closer regulations on priority and the provision of labor.

0 Modified by law 16 des 2011 # 65 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 16 des 2011 # 1247).
SECTION 11. Beoring at crisis in freds and wartime

In situations as mentioned in the Medicaid Act Section 25-17 first and other clauses, jf. The fifth clause, the Working and welfare Directorate can impose employees in the Working and welfare department to carry out work at other organs in the department.

In order to do service in the Social Service and the Municipal Health and Care Service after law 23. June 2000 # 56 on health care and social readiness Section 4-1 can also include employees of the department. With the consent of the Department of Work, Health and Ministry of Health can impose employees in the Department of Health and Social Affairs of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs after law 23. June 2000 # 56 on health care and social readiness Section 4-1.

0 Modified by laws 24 June 2011 # 30 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 16 des 2011 # 1252), 16 des 2011 # 65 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 16 des 2011 # 1247).
SECTION 12. Prescription

The Ministry can provide regulations on working-and welfare agencies and their business, herder regulations on their own selection, advice and netheres.

The king can provide regulations on the completion of the provisions of Section 10 and 11.

Chapter 3. Work and welfare agencies and the municipal joint local offices

SECTION 13. Public local offices

The working-and welfare department and municipatations should have joint local offices covering all counties.

The office shall take care of tasks for the Department of the Department and the municipal tasks by law 18. December 2009 # 131 about social services in the employment and welfare management. The Department of Etreaty and the municipality can agreement that also others of the municipality's services shall be included in the office.

The office is going to as far as it is possible and affordable designs out from the principle of universal design.

0 Modified by laws 26 oct 2007 # 97, 18 des 2009 # 131 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 18 des 2009 # 1584).
SECTION 14. Cooperation and task sharing

The office shall be created by agreement between the Working and welfare and the municipality. The agreement shall contain regulations on location and design, organization and operation of the office, what municipal services should be made in the office, and how the office will interact with the representative of the office's users and the municipal service offerings.

The agreement may contain regulations on carrying out tasks on each other's government areas. The Ministry may give regulation on the frames of such regulations, herbunder that a municipal employee shall have the right to exercise the same authority as a state leader would have in cases of employment, termination, suspension, and illegacy of disorderly conduct.

If the municipality delegates its authority to an intermunicipal organ or a host of the municipality, the agreement can be made with this organ or the host of the municipality.

The Ministry can provide regulation on the resolution of disputes between the department and the municipasts.

0 Modified by law 24 apr 2009 number 20.
Section 14 a. Assessment of the need for assistance to keep or acquire work and right to activity plan

Anyone who is addressing the office, and who wishes or needs assistance to get to work, has the right to consider its bidistance needs ; Users who have a need for a more comprehensive assessment of their contribution needs have the right to get a work skills assessment. The user shall obtain a written assessment of

a) their opportunities to get to work
b) what kind of work to be the target
c) the need for assistance to get to work
d) about, and optionally how much, the work ability is impaired
e) what type of assistance can be featured for the user

Attaches after the first clause can be scratched to the nearest parent organ or to the organ that the Working and welfare Directorate decides.

Users who have been established that they have a bidistance need have the right to participate in the employment of a concrete plan for how to get to work (activity plan). It is still not going to be worked out activity plans for people who have the right to qualifying program by law on social services in the working-and welfare management.

The Working and welfare department has the responsibility that the assessments are being conducted and that activity plans are being worked out. For users who simultaneously claim an individual plan after Section 15, the employment and welfare management shall be adding that the activity plan and the individual plan as far as possible be intersettled.

The Ministry of Justice may in regulation determine that certain groups should be exempturitable from the right to work skills assessments and further rules about the content of the work skills assessment.

0 Added by law 19 des 2008 number 106 (ikr. 1 Feb 2010 ifg. res. 29 jan 2010 # 64), modified by law 16 des 2011 # 58, 24 June 2011 # 30 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 16 des 2011 # 1252).
SECTION 15. Cooperation with the user and individual plan

Any person who is addressing the office has the right to information on the work of employment and welfare management services and benefits.

The office shall earliest clarify the user's holiest need ; the Service Offering shall as far as possible designs in collaboration with the user.

The need for long-lasting and coordinated services has the right to get worked out individual plan. The plan is to be designed in collaboration with the user. The office will cooperate with other service providers about the plan to contribute to a holistic offer for the one it applies.

The Ministry can provide regulation with closer regulations on whom the right to individual plan applies to and whether the plan's content.

SECTION 16. Treatment of personal information by the joint local office and information sharing with the Working and welfare services contact center service

Taushebe alike after this law or after law 18. December 2009 # 131 about social services in the employment and welfare management is not to the obstacle that information is available to other employees within the office of the extent needed for an appropriate work and archival arrangement, among other things to use at guidance in other cases. Taushood Duty is also not an obstacle to the central information of individual municipal staterity cases are available to employees at the Working and welfare services company contact center service.

0 Changed by laws 18 des 2009 # 131 (ikr. 1 jan 2010 ifg. res. 18 des 2009 # 1584), 19 des 2014 # 74 (ikr. 1 jan 2015).

Chapter 4. End regulations

SECTION 17. Istrontrecation

The law takes effect from the time the King decides. 1

1 From 1 July 2006 ifg. res. 16 June 2006 # 631.
SECTION 18. Overtime Regulations

Until the Working and welfare department has reached agreement with the individual municipality after Section 13 and 14 and joint local offices have been established, the provisions of the law here, including those changes in the labour market law, the Medicaid Act and other laws that follows by Section 19, only as far as they fit.

The Ministry of Justice can in regulation determine closer transition rules.

0 Modified by law 11 jan 2013 # 3 (ikr. 1 June 2013 ifg. res. 24 May 2013 # 533).
SECTION 19. Changes in other laws

From the time the law comes into effect repeater law 17. June 2005 No. 61 about the interionization of new labor and welfare agency.

From the same time, the following changes are made in other laws :---