Arbeidsgiverforeningen Spekter is an employers' organisation in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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It was established in 1993 as the Norwegian Association of Publicly Owned Companies (Norges arbeidsgiverforening for virksomheter med offentlig tilknytning). The name was shortened to Arbeidsgiverforeningen NAVO in 1999, and Arbeidsgiverforeningen Spekter in 2007. It organizes about 180 companies that are partially or formerly public-owned. Employees in these companies are generally organized

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 within LO Stat

LO Stat

LO Stat is one of two cartels within the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions.It organizes employees of the Norwegian state or of companies that are member bodies of the employers' association Spekter. It was created in 1939 under the name Statstjenestemannskartellet . In 1996 it was renamed...

. The CEO is Lars Haukaas

Lars Haukaas

Lars Haukaas is a Norwegian organizational leader.He was born in Oslo, and holds the cand.jur. degree. He worked in Norsk Medisinaldepot from 1983 to 1989, as director in the Norwegian State Railways from 1989 to 1994 and in the employers' association Norwegian Association of Publicly Owned...

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