📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs proposes that the Discrimination Board get the authority to settle cases on retaliation following notification in the Working Environment Act.The Ministry also proposes that the Board be given competence to award erection and to some extent compensation in such cases.The proposal is part of the governments work to strengthen the protection of whistleblowers in Norwegian working life and is a follow-up to NOU 2018 6 Notification - values and protection and Prop. 74 L 2018-2019 .Low threshold for notificationThe Government has previously concluded that it will be expedient to establish a low-threshold offer for debt cases after notification and that this should be done by building on an existing committee solution.Today it is only the courts that have jurisdiction to decide such cases. The proposal is that the Discrimination Board gets the authority to handle these cases.The hearing deadline is October 15 2020.
