On Tuesday, the government held a meeting with social partners on the state budget. Prime Minister Støre invited companies to cooperate to increase vaccination coverage in Norway. We hope that the workplace vaccination offer will contribute to more vaccinations.
- The challenge is to ensure that vaccination coverage is further extended. He's very good in some groups and lags behind in others. Therefore, we see municipalities being creative now and facilitating vaccination in new places, so there is a lower vaccination threshold, says Støre to NTB.
- I address my challenge to social partners - whether in cooperation with communes they can contribute to vaccinating people.
Foreign workers
Støre refers to the workplace testing experience, which he believes shows that more people use an offer when it becomes readily available.
"Some of them should consider vaccination," he says.
Støre is particularly concerned about the numbers of unvaccinated foreigners employees in Norway.
- We have seen that some groups that come from abroad and work in Norway have a lower vaccination coverage than we do in Norway. They are in Norway. Then we should think about protecting them - he says.
– Could there be a requirement for immigrant workers to be vaccinated to be eligible work in Norway?
- The rule of thumb in Norway is still that vaccinations are voluntary. It is important to stick to this. I don't want warrants
NHO CEO Ole Erik Almlid said after the meeting that employers would take some responsibility for protecting vaccines.
"So we should really consider the prime minister's proposal," he said.
Almlid also stressed that vaccinations must be voluntary.
- We can't say it's a warrant.
LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsvik believes that the social partners can achieve a lot if they work together on this issue.
`` I have much more faith in this approach than the fact that you should say people are not allowed to come to work unless they are vaccinated, '' she said
Source: NTB
Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB
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