Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration
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The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration is the current Norwegian public welfare agency.
NAV was established as a result of the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Act of 2006. The newly established agency is a collaboration between the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service and certain parts of the municipal social services. "NAV" was originally an acronym for "New Labour and Welfare Administration" but is now seen as a word.
The aim of the NAV reform is to gather all the social security and employment offices to a common state agency where the employees of the Labour and Welfare Service and the municipal social services would work together to find solutions for unemployed people
. The reform was adopted by the Parliament of Norway in the spring of 2005, and the social security agency National Insurance Service
and employment agency Aetat
was formally dismantled in July 2006 as the new Labour and Welfare Agency was established. The aim is that each municipality in Norway would have a local NAV office until the end of 2010.
NAV was established as a result of the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Act of 2006. The newly established agency is a collaboration between the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service and certain parts of the municipal social services. "NAV" was originally an acronym for "New Labour and Welfare Administration" but is now seen as a word.
The aim of the NAV reform is to gather all the social security and employment offices to a common state agency where the employees of the Labour and Welfare Service and the municipal social services would work together to find solutions for unemployed people
Unemployment
Unemployment , as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks...
. The reform was adopted by the Parliament of Norway in the spring of 2005, and the social security agency National Insurance Service
National Insurance Service
The National Insurance Service was a Norwegian Norwegian government agency responsible for social security.-Organization:It had its roots in the National Insurance Administration , which was founded by parliamentary act on 23 July 1894 under the name Rigsforsikringsanstalten...
and employment agency Aetat
Aetat
Aetat was a Norwegian Norwegian government agency responsible for battling unemployment.-History:It had its roots in the Directorate of Labour , which was founded in 1945. Its purpose was to "prevent and remedy" unemployment in the Norwegian society. The name Aetat was taken into use in 2000, when...
was formally dismantled in July 2006 as the new Labour and Welfare Agency was established. The aim is that each municipality in Norway would have a local NAV office until the end of 2010.