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Original Language Title: Lov om arbeidsmarkedstjenester (arbeidsmarkedsloven)

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Law on job market services (the work sheet of law).

Date LO-2004-12-10-76
Ministry of Work and Social Affairs
Last modified LAW-2015 -06-19-42 from 01.01.2016, LAW-2015 -06-19-65 from 01.10.2015
Published In 2004 booklet 14
Istrontrecation 01.07.2005
Changing LAW-1947--06-27-9
Announcement 10.12.2004
Card title Working Sheet Act

Capital overview :

Chapter 1. Foretarget and scope

SECTION 1. Formal

Law's purpose is to contribute to achieving an inclusive work life through a well-functioning working market with high occupational participation and low unemployment.

SECTION 2. Scope

Chapter 1 to 7 applies to all persons with legal stay in the realm and for all who run legal business in Norway. The Working and welfare department should also provide services after this law to other legal subjects when this follows of international obligations.

The king can determine the shonest rules of Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

The Ministry can provide regulation that the means of home in this law can be applied outside the country's borders when this is appropriate to promote the purpose of the law, and about the Services Working and welfare department as a result of international obligations.

The Ministry can provide regulation on the law of law enforcement for the submitted workers, jf. work environment law Section 1-7.

0 Changed by laws 17 June 2005 # 62 (ikr. 1 jan 2006 ifg. res. 17 June 2005 # 609), 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).

Chapter 2. Aagency

0 Kapitlet with Section 3-6 is repea by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).

Chapter 3. Workgivers eldeduty

SECTION 7. Empgivers duty to report free positions

The employer shall immediately report the vacancy to the Work and welfare department. Will it be immediately put one into the position, the meldeduty falls away.

The milk duty does not apply when the position has become vacant due to the lockout or strike approved by the main convergence of the employers or the Workers conflict applies, and it is not known illegally by judgment.

An employer who has been calling for the Working and welfare department to get labor, should immediately report to the Work and welfare department if the mission falls away.

The employer who himself wants to advertise after labor without specifying its name should simultaneously with message after the first clause to specify the reason for such a approach.

The king may give regulation on exceptions from the provisions of the first clause of vacant positions in the state, county of county, counties and whole-and semi-public institutions. The king can further give regulation on what extent these should take advantage of the Working and welfare department when they will be attributed to workers.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
SECTION 8. Workgivers of the Meldeduty and Working and welfare Department follow-up on mass layoffs and permittations

The employer who is considering going to mass layoffs, jf. The Working Environment Act Section 15-2 first joints, shall the earliest possible and latest at the same time that employer calls for dream-ups, give the Working and welfare department message as determined in the Working Environment Act Section 15-2 third clause. Corresponding message is to be given the Working and welfare department if the workers will be perched without pay or for more than 4 weeks will get their weekly working time narrowed by more than 50 percent. Message should also be issued at mass layoffs or permitments of Workers who are retaken by the service party law.

The message is to be given to the Work and welfare department of the district of the district is located.

Planned mass layoffs are given the earliest impact 30 days after the Working and welfare department is informed. If necessary to obtain such agreement as mentioned in the Working Environment Act Section 15-2 other clauses, the Working and welfare department can extend the deadline after the first period of up to 30 days. If the Working and welfare department is changing this deadline, it shall be given written message to employer about this. The deadline cannot be extended when a business ceases as a result of a court decision.

The Working and welfare department shall take advantage of the deadline after third clause, first or second period, to find solutions to the problems that the planned layoffs travel. The Ministry of Justice can in regulation give closer rules on how the right to the postponements of layoffs should be enjoyed and the Working and welfare of the welfare department.

The Working and welfare Directorate can determine the level of curbs in the meldline duty.

0 Changed by laws 17 June 2005 # 62 (ikr. 1 jan 2006 ifg. res. 17 June 2005 # 609), 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).

Chapter 4. Registration and Demand Assessment

0 The headline changed by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
Section 9. (Raised by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).) SECTION 10. Registration as Working seeker

Any person who is reselected by this law has the right to be registered as a work seeker at the Work and welfare department.

To have the right to be registered, work is required to report to the Working and welfare department in such manner and as often as the Working and welfare department decides.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
Section 11. (Raised by law 19 des 2008 # 106 (ikr. 1 March 2010 ifg. res. 19 Feb 2010 # 189).)

Chapter 5. Workmarket style stem mov.

0 The headline changed by law 24 June 2011 # 18 (ikr. 1 July 2011).
SECTION 12. Workmarket style roof

Working market measures shall be designed and organized in accordance with the purposes of the law, they target and guidelines that lie due to the Parliament's appropriations, granting letters from the Ministry of Health and Regulations.

The Ministry can provide further regulations on the labor market measures and determine further purpose, content, personcircuit and organization of the measures.

The Ministry can provide regulations on efforts with working market measures.

0 Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 42 (ikr. 1 jan 2016).
SECTION 13. Yens to the review of work market measures mv.

Participants in working market measures can be provided to taxable money if they do not receive wages from the admissions event or have the right to cover expenses of life-changing manner. The Ministry provides regulations on terms of conditions for and the size of the grant money, herunder whether in what measures participants can receive added money. The Ministry can provide regulations as the absence of the first period.

Exclusion participants who receive grant money can get on-demand coverage of expenses they have due to the admissions participation, if they don't have the right to cover expenses after other law, deal, or practices. Additional output can also be given to an admissions participant that does not get paid spending money due to him or she is incarcerated in prison, and to an admissions participant participating in a measure that provides the right to the grant money as a part of a qualifying program, jf. Chapter 4 of Law 18. December 2009 # 131 about social services in the employment and welfare management. Exclusion participants participating in a measures that provide the right to grant money, but receive day money under unemployment after the Medicaid Act Chapter 4, can get stagad to coverage of travel expenses. The Ministry can provide regulations on the terms of and the size of the additional demand.

The Ministry can provide regulations on benefits to admissions organisers, employers, and people under education, herunder about conditions for and the size of the performance and about work-givers pay-alike to participants in measures, and about working applicants can get statad that promotes geographic mobility and flexibility on the labor market.

0 Modified by laws 24 June 2011 # 18 (ikr. 1 July 2011), 14 June 2013 # 33, 19 June 2015 # 42 (ikr. 1 jan 2016).

Chapter 6. Case processing rules

SECTION 14. General case management rules

The Prevalence Act applies to the prefertual rules that are determined in the law here.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
SECTION 15. How demand for styad is to be put forward

Demand for stønad in connection with labour market measures by Chapter 5 of this Act, is set forth for the local Nof office, unless the Working and welfare Directorate decides otherwise.

The Ministry can provide regulations on when requirements must be put forward.

0 Modified by laws 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631), 19 June 2015 # 42 (ikr. 1 jan 2016).
SECTION 16. The concepts of party and individual ordinance in certain cases

Several people who need or wish the same service do not count as parties in the same case, and cannot complain that another has received the service.

Work and welfare management decisions faced by an admissions event about establishing an appraisal space does not count as single-ordinance after the Management Act. The same is true for decisions that employer hits on behalf of the Working and welfare department about intake on labour market measures or termination of the admissions relationship.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
SECTION 17. Commaking

Individuals by the law can be incurred to the nearest parent organ or to the organ that the Working and welfare Directorate decides.

The deadline to complain about individual ordinance is six weeks from the point of time under the direction of the ordinance has come forward to the person's party. Complaints are set forth for the joint local office in the working-and welfare management where the complainant lives or is stalling, unless the Working and welfare Directorate decides otherwise. For the Working and welfare of the welfare department of an employer, the three-week period of the year-old still applies from the time subdirection of the ordinance has been reached out to work applicant.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
SECTION 18. The Underdirection of the ordinance

The Ministry can provide regulations that the underdirection of the ordinance does not have to be issued when the ordinance applies to the performance of reasons that are clearly known to the party, and it has been provided preorientation that the court to performance abdutes in such cases.

SECTION 19. Illumination alike to the Working and welfare department

The Working and welfare department can impose employment applicants, Workers, employers, Public Government, Education institutions, State loan case for education, the post-Norway AS, insurance companies, banks, private pension schemes and appellate and Service providers to provide information that are necessary for the Working and welfare department to be able to carry out their tasks by this law.

Those who are required to provide information, duties to do this without allowance. The information is to be given without due to stay and without the hurdle of secrecy.

0 Modified by laws 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631), 22 des 2006 # 94 (ikr. 1 jan 2007 ifg res. 22 des 2006 # 1530), 17 des 2010 # 80.
SECTION 20. Honest limitations in the privilege of

Lawless-patient confidentiality is not to the obstacle that information on paid benefits can be provided to the IRS for control purposes.

Legisability is also not an obstacle to the necessary exchange of information in performance cases between Working and welfare agencies and the organs determined with home law in the Medicaid Act Section 21-15 first joints.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
SECTION 21. Police reference

The Ministry provides in regulation further regulations on the claims of police reference in accordance with the rules of the police registry law Section 39 first clause for person to be placed in business that arrange working market measures aimed at developmental and about which ones measures this shall apply.

0 Raised by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631), added again by law 23 March 2012 No. 13 (ikr. 1 May 2012 ifg. res. 23 March 2012 No. 247).

Chapter 7. Feedback mv.

SECTION 22. Payback mv.

By requirement of the repayment of the fault-paid benefits, the Medicaid Act applies Section 22-15 and 22-17 equivalent.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
Section 23. (Raised by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).) Section 24 (Raised by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).)

Chapter 8. Private work and the rental of Workers

SECTION 25. Definitions and scope

With private work-making, all active link between work seeks and employer is performed by others than the Working and welfare department of the intent to establish an employer / work-stock relationship.

With the lease of workers, the hiring of workers from an employer (landlord) is to a employers (inrent) in which the rented is subject to the employer's leadership.

The Ministry of the Ministry can provide further provisions on what is means of private employment and the rental of Workers.

The provisions of this chapter apply to business being driven in Norway.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
SECTION 26 Private working-out

The business that operates private work is not able to demand payment of the employment applicant for the messaging service.

The Ministry of Justice can in regulation determine closer terms for message, reporting, supervision, organizing and operation of the messaging business, and can in shonest cases make exceptions from the ban in the first clause.

The Ministry of Justice can in regulation determine the shonest rules of enterprises that run the service of the sea people.

SECTION 27. The lease of Workers

The business that rents out workers must meet the following conditions :

1. The business that has leased out a working holder cannot limit the employment holder's ability to take employment at inrents after hiring the employment relationship with the landlord's end.
2. The business cannot rent out a worker's work holder until one of the worker's former employers before it has been six months since the labor-maker quit this.
3. The business cannot require the payment of the employment holder for rental services.

The Ministry of Justice can in regulation determine closer terms for message, reporting, supervision, organizing and operation of the rental business. The Ministry of Justice can in regulation determine conditions for the acquisition of working holder from rental business and for supervision of such inrent.

The Ministry of Justice can in regulation determine the shonest rules of enterprises that run the rental of sea people.

0 Modified by law 5 des 2008 number 82 (ikr. 1 jan 2009 ifg res. 5 des 2008 No. 1 1284).

Chapter 9. Sanctions

SECTION 28. Exestration

employers and workers who do not meet reasonable requirements as the Working and welfare department are lining their services, can for a time limit period lockout from all or part of the Working and welfare department's offer after this the law.

0 Modified by law 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631).
SECTION 29. Punishment to provide incorrect information and to not provide necessary information

If the relationship doesn't go in under stricter penalty, punishable by fines

a) the one that after provision or raise with home in this law duties to provide information and messages, but as intentional or negligent neglect to do this,
b) the one against better knowing provides incorrect information or holds back information that is important for rights or duties after this law.

The address after this determination only takes place after claims from the Working and welfare Directorate or that it provides power of attorney.

0 Modified by laws 16 June 2006 # 20 (ikr. 1 July 2006 ifg res. 16 June 2006 # 631), 17 des 2010 # 80.
SECTION 30. Punishment for violation of regulations determined or with home in Section 26 and 27

If the relationship does not go in under stricter penalties, punishable by fines it as intentional or negligent will be imposed on the provisions set in or with the Home Section of Section 26 and 27.

0 Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 65 (ikr. 1 oct 2015).

Chapter 10. End regulations

SECTION 31 Istrontrecation

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

1 From 1 July 2005 ifg. res. 10 des 2004 # 1616.
SECTION 32. Changes in other legislation

From the time the law here takes effect, the following changes are made in other legislation :--- 1

1 Among other things, law was allowed 27 June 1947 # 9 about measures to promote employment repealing.