NHO with new offer for the guards:

In a press release to VG on Thursday morning, the employers’ organization NHO Service og Handel states for the first time about the negotiations related to the security strike, after a soon six-week strike period.

The press release came in connection with the organization on Wednesday morning sending an offer to the guards, which is represented through the employee organization Parat and the Norwegian Workers’ Union (NAF).

The offer from the organization has not yet been answered, according to NHO. This surprises Anne-Cecilie Kaltenborn, CEO of NHO Service og Handel.

– We have here gone somewhat beyond the framework, and the reason for this is that this occupational group has gradually gained more competence and more responsibility, and it is important for companies to keep them. We also meet employees’ demands on other points, such as better conditions for apprentices and advance payment of sickness benefits, says Kaltenborn.

In the press release, Kaltenborn writes that the employees have now received a better settlement than most groups this year have received, including industry.

– The offer will give security guards NOK 8,000 in increased annual salary, and will meet all main requirements. Neither NAF nor Parat have responded to the offer.

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The other party responds: – Fifty øre extra per hour

Parat’s chief negotiator, Lars Petter Larsen, reacts to the fact that the other party has now gone public with the offer. He believes NHO’s proposal is a circumvention of the duty of confidentiality from the mediation, and criticizes the offer.

– It is gratifying that they now recognize the guards’ competence and responsibility with fifty øre extra per hour beyond the framework from the front subject. When we parted in the last mediation, I commented that the tender was worse than what we went on strike for, Larsen writes in an SMS to VG on Thursday morning.

Kaltenborn, on the other hand, still hopes that this can lead to a solution to this six-week labor dispute.

She emphasizes the seriousness of the situation after an entire industry, already hard hit by infection control measures, has now undergone six weeks of strike.

The parties have previously tried to reach an agreement agreement with the mediator, without success.

– This unfortunate strike has now lasted a very long time, and things have been said in the media about what we have offered that we do not recognize ourselves in, and which does not rhyme with what has been our line all the way, says Kaltenborn in NHO.

During the strike period, Parat and NAF together took out more than 2,000 guards on strike.

This has led to headaches and difficulties in several places across the country, including train stations, shopping malls and hotels.

Previously, Kaltenborn had a desire to resolve the conflict with the mediator, and not in the media. As this has not yet yielded results, the organization now wants to be open about its views on the negotiations.

– We can not reveal what has been said during mediation, but we want openness about our intention in this settlement. That is why today we are going out with an offer we have given outside mediation, which there is every opportunity for. We hope that it will contribute to a better understanding, more trust and a solution, says Kaltenborn.

NHO: Believes they have met the requirements

Kaltenborn believes that in this offer they have met NAF and Parat on their main requirements.

In total, this gives more than the limit in the front subject of 1.7 percent growth in this demanding year. We therefore hope and believe that this offer can lead to an end to the conflict, says Kaltenborn.

Here is the latest offer for the guards:

* NOK 2 per hour in general supplement to all current basic wage rates, as well as NOK 1 which helps to approach industrial workers’ wages. A total of NOK 3 per hour.

* NOK 2 per hour in addition for weekends, nights and shifts.

* The companies do not have the right to discriminate against employees in the company with regard to the advance payment of sickness benefits. The equal treatment applies no later than 1 January 2022.

* The requirements for apprentices’ rights have been complied with, including that their apprenticeship must count as one year’s seniority at first employment, that their work plans must be notified two weeks in advance, and that their rotation plans must be discussed with the employee side.

* The companies agree that during the agreement period they will look at the issue of involuntary part-time work and discuss this with the shop stewards twice a year.