A solution can be found in the wage settlement on Sunday afternoon

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– Nothing new yet. Everyone meets as normal at work, writes NHO’s Eva-Charlotte Stenset in an SMS to NTB on Sunday morning.

– Do not know when the mediation ends, Stenset writes further.

According to NTB’s experience on Sunday morning, the parties are still a long way from agreement and that a solution can come soon this afternoon. The same writes VG.

– We can not comment on what is happening, but we are still here, says LO’s Trond Gram to NTB on Sunday morning.

There is a danger that more than 30,000 will be taken out on strike if the parties do not agree on the mediation, which has lasted more than nine hours of overtime. As the parties did not agree by 6 o’clock, employees who may be taken out on strike are told to show up for work as planned on Sunday.

– It is difficult

– The time is so much now that I do not think it will happen at dawn, but we have agreed further meetings this morning, says Ombudsman Mats Ruland to NRK just after 8 o’clock.

– The atmosphere is professional. It is difficult, the parties have not reached an agreement yet, they have been sitting in meetings all night, and will sit in meetings throughout the morning and. But it is a demanding mediation, he continues.

Ruland calls himself an optimist and further says that it should be possible to find a solution to the negotiations.

LO, YS and NHO have been mediating with the Ombudsman since 10 o’clock on Friday, and the original deadline for agreeing was at midnight on Sunday night.

Disagree on pay and lift for low paid

This year’s settlement is a so-called interim settlement, where only salaries are negotiated. NHO proposes a wage increase of 2.2 percent to ensure competitiveness.

There will actually be a decline in the purchasing power of Norwegian workers as inflation is estimated at 2.8 per cent this year. Therefore, LO demands a wage increase of at least 2.8 percent.

In addition, LO demands a boost for low-wage earners. This will probably be the decisive point in mediation, according to FriFagbevegelse. NHO is opposed to it being given at all and demands that it should include fewer than in previous years if it is to be given.

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