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  1. The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority
  2. Laws and Regulations
  3. Laws
  4. Working Environment Act
  5. Chapter 13. Protection against discrimination
  6. Section 13-5.(Repealed)

Act relating to the working environment, working hours and employment protection, etc. (Working Environment Act)

Section 1-1. The purpose of the Act

Section 1-2. The scope of the Act

Section 1-3. Offshore petroleum activities

Section 1-4. Undertakings with no employees, etc.

Section 1-5. Work performed at the home of the employee or employer

Section 1-6. Persons who are not employees

Section 1-7. Posted employees

Section 1-8. The employee and the employer

Section 1-9. Indispensability

Section 2-1. Duties of the employer

Section 2-2. Duties of the employer towards persons other than own employees

Section 2-3. Employees' duty to cooperate

Section 2-4. (Repealed)

Section 2-5. (Repealed)

Section 2 A-1. The right to report issues of concern in the undertaking

Section 2 A-2. Procedure in connection with reporting issues of concern

Section 2 A-3. The employer's duty in connection with reporting issues of concern

Section 2 A-4. Prohibition against retaliation

Section 2 A-5. Redress and compensation in case of violation of the prohibition against retaliation

Section 2 A-6. Obligation to prepare procedures for internal whistleblowing

Section 2 A-7. Duty of confidentiality in connection with external whistleblowing to the public authorities

Section 2 A-8. The Equality and Anti-Discrimination Tribunal

Section 3-1. Requirements regarding systematic health, environment and safety work

Section 3-2. Special safety precautions

Section 3-3. Occupational health services

Section 3-4. Assessment of measures for physical activity

Section 3-5. The employer's obligation to undergo training in health, environment and safety work

Section 3-6. (Repealed)

Section 4-1. General requirements regarding the working environment

Section 4-2. Requirements regarding arrangement, participation and development

Section 4-3. Requirements regarding the psychosocial working environment

Section 4-4. Requirements regarding the physical working environment

Section 4-5. Particularly concerning chemical and biological health hazards

Section 4-6. Particularly concerning adaptation for employees with reduced capacity for work

Section 5-1. Recording injuries and diseases

Section 5-2. The employer's notification obligation

Section 5-3. Medical practitioners' notification obligation

Section 5-4. Manufacturers and importers of chemicals and biological substances

Section 5-5. Manufacturers, suppliers and importers of machines and other work equipment

Section 6-1. Obligation to elect safety representatives

Section 6-2. Duties of safety representatives

Section 6-3. The safety representative's right to halt dangerous work

Section 6-4. Special local or regional safety representatives

Section 6-5. Costs, training, etc.

Section 7-1. Obligation to establish working environment committees

Section 7-2. The duties of the working environment committee

Section 7-3. Special local working environment committees

Section 7-4. Costs, training, etc.

Section 8-1. Obligation regarding information and consultation

Section 8-2. Implementation of the obligation regarding information and consultation

Section 8-3. Confidential information

Section 8-4. Information and discussion in corporate groups

Section 9-1. Conditions for control measures in the undertaking

Section 9-2. Consultations, information and evaluation of control measures

Section 9-3. Obtaining health information on the appointment of employees

Section 9-4. Medical examinations of job applicants and employees

Section 9-5. Access to employees' e-mail inboxes, etc.

Section 9-6. Camera surveillance

Section 10-1. Definitions

Section 10-2. Working hour arrangements

Section 10-3. Work schedule

Section 10-4. Normal working hours

Section 10-5. Calculating average normal working hours

Section 10-6. Overtime

Section 10-7. Account of working hours

Section 10-8. Daily and weekly off-duty time

Section 10-9. Breaks

Section 10-10. Work on Sundays

Section 10-11. Night work

Section 10-12. Exceptions

Section 10-13. Settlement of disputes

Section 11-1. Prohibition against child labour

Section 11-2. Working hours

Section 11-3. Prohibition against night work

Section 11-4. Medical examinations

Section 11-5. Breaks and time off

Section 12-1. Prenatal examinations

Section 12-2. Pregnancy leave

Section 12-3. Leave of absence to care for a child

Section 12-4. Maternity leave

Section 12-5. Parental leave

Section 12-6. Partial leave of absence

Section 12-7. Duty to provide notification

Section 12-8. Time off for nursing mothers

Section 12-9. Child's or childminder's sickness

Section 12-10. Care and nursing of close relatives and/or other close persons

Section 12-11. Educational leave

Section 12-12. Military service, etc.

Section 12-13. Public office

Section 12-14. Settlement of disputes

Section 12-15. Religious holidays

Section 12-16. Regulations in connection with an outbreak or danger of an outbreak of a communicable disease hazardous to public health

Section 13-1. Prohibition against discrimination

Section 13-2. Scope of this chapter

Section 13-3. Exceptions from the prohibition against discrimination

Section 13-4. Obtaining information on the appointment of employees

Section 13-5. (Repealed)

Section 13-6. Preferential treatment

Section 13-7. Duty of disclosure

Section 13-8. Burden of proof

Section 13-9. The effects of breach of the discrimination prohibition

Section 13-10. Right of organisations to act as an agent

Section 14-1. Information concerning vacant posts in the undertaking

Section 14-1 a. (Repealed)

Section 14-1 b. Full-time and part-time employment

Section 14-2. Preferential right to a new appointment

Section 14-3. Preferential rights of part-time employees

Section 14-4. Effects of a breach of the provisions concerning preferential rights

Section 14-4 a. Part-time workers' entitlement to a post equivalent to actual working hours

Section 14-4 b. Consequences of breaches of part-time workers' entitlement to a post equivalent to actual working hours

Section 14-5. Requirements regarding a written contract of employment

Section 14-6. Minimum requirements regarding the content of the written contract

Section 14-7. Employees posted abroad

Section 14-8. Changes in the employment relationship

Section 14-8 a. Request for more predictable and safe working conditions

Section 14-9. Permanent and temporary appointment

Section 14-10. Fixed-term appointments

Section 14-11. Effects of breaches of the provisions concerning permanent and temporary appointments

Section 14-12. Hiring workers from undertakings whose object is to hire out labour (temporary-work agencies)

Section 14-12 a. Equal treatment regarding pay and working conditions in connection with the hiring out of workers by temporary-work agencies

Section 14-12 b. The obligation to provide information and the right of access to information when hiring workers from temporary- work agencies

Section 14-12 c. Joint and several liability for user undertakings

Section 14-13. Hiring workers from undertakings other than those whose object is to hire out labour

Section 14-14. Consequences of unlawful hiring of employees

Section 14-14 a. Discussion concerning employment

Section 14-15. Payment of salary and holiday pay

Section 14-16. Staff rules

Section 14-17. Establishment of staff rules

Section 14-18. Time limit for submitting staff rules

Section 14-19. Validity of staff rules

Section 14-20. Amendments to staff rules

Section 14 A-1. Non-compete clauses

Section 14 A-2. Statements in connection with non-compete clauses

Section 14 A-3. Compensation on invoking a non-compete clause

Section 14 A-4. Non-solicitation of customers clauses

Section 14 A-5. Exceptions regarding the undertaking's chief executive

Section 14 A-6. Non-solicitation of employees clauses

Section 15-1. Consultations before decisions regarding dismissal with notice

Section 15-2. Information and consultation in connection with collective redundancies

Section 15-3. Periods of notice

Section 15-4. Formal requirements regarding notice of dismissal

Section 15-5. Consequences of formal errors in connection with a notice of dismissal

Section 15-6. Protection against dismissal in contracts of employment specifying a trial period

Section 15-7. Protection against unfair dismissal

Section 15-8. Protection against dismissal in the event of sickness

Section 15-9. Protection against dismissal during pregnancy or following the birth or adoption of a child

Section 15-10. Protection against dismissal in connection with military service, etc.

Section 15-11. The employee's right to remain in his post

Section 15-12. Consequences of unfair dismissal, etc.

Section 15-13. Suspension

Section 15-13 a. Termination of employment on account of age

Section 15-14. Summary dismissal

Section 15-15. References

Section 15-16. The chief executive of the undertaking

Section 15-17. Dismissal in connection with labour disputes

Section 16-1. Scope of this chapter

Section 16-2. Pay and working conditions

Section 16-3. Right of reservation, etc.

Section 16-4. Protection against dismissal

Section 16-5. Information and consultation with elected representatives of the employees

Section 16-6. Information to the employees

Section 16-7. Representation

Section 17-1. Disputes concerning working conditions

Section 17-2. Dispute Resolution Board

Section 17-2 a. Time limit for submission of matters to the Dispute Resolution Board

Section 17-2 b. Rehearing

Section 17-2 c. Correction and supplementary decisions

Section 17-3. The right to demand negotiations

Section 17-4. Time limits for instituting legal proceedings in disputes concerning dismissal with notice, summary dismissal, suspension, etc.

Section 17-5. Extension of time limits and reinstatement of cases in respect of dismissal during sickness, pregnancy, parental leave, military service, etc.

Section 17-6. Panels of lay judges

Section 17-7. Appointment of lay judges

Section 18-1. The Labour Inspection Authority

Section 18-2. Protection of sources of information

Section 18-3. Fees

Section 18-4. Access of the Labour Inspection Authority to the undertaking

Section 18-5. Information

Section 18-6. Orders and other individual decisions

Section 18-7. Coercive fines

Section 18-8. Halting of work

Section 18-9. Consent of the Labour Inspection Authority for the erection of new buildings, etc.

Section 18-10. Administrative fines

Section 18-11. Mutual assistance in connection with recovery and notification of financial administrative sanctions

Section 19-1. Liability of proprietors of undertakings, employers and persons managing undertakings in the employer's stead

Section 19-2. Liability of employees

Section 19-3. Liability for enterprises

Section 19-4. Liability for obstructing public authorities

Section 19-5. Public servants

Section 19-6. Prosecution

Section 19-7. (Repealed)

Section 20-1. Entry into force

Section 20-2. Transitional provisions

Section 20-3. Amendments to other Acts

Section 13-5. (Repealed)

Repealed by the Act of 20 June 2008 No. 42.

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