– The parties decided just before midnight on March 31 to continue mediation in overtime. Employees meet at work as normal as long as the mediation is ongoing, Fellesforbundet reports on their websites.
– The parties are now negotiating overtime, writes Norwegian Industry.
NTB also receives confirmation from Parat that it has agreed to mediate overtime.
Neither Fellesforbundet nor Parat reached an agreement with the employers’ organization Norsk Industri in the voluntary mediation.
Thus, the settlement went to forced mediation, and the parties met at the Ombudsman on Monday this week. The work is led by national mediator Mats W. Ruland.
Will throw the tie
The Ombudsman has announced that he will throw away the tie when there is a clarification.
– I still have the tie on, and we will probably continue with the mediation for a while longer, he said NRK slightly after 11pm on Thursday night.
– It’s movement. Now the parties sit and work separately, and then they also work in working groups. And then we will have meetings further through the night, Ruland continued.
Difficult backdrop
Earlier on Thursday, Ruland told NTB that there is a difficult backdrop this year, where the economy is on its way out of a pandemic, in addition to high inflation and rising interest rates over the past year.
27,600 members of Fellesforbundet and around 1,000 in Parat will go on strike from Friday if no agreement is reached.
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