Report highlights outsourcing impact on pay and conditions

Public services union Fagforbundet has welcomed a new report from the LO confederation that provides further evidence from a number of countries of the negative impact of outsourcing. The report reveals that outsourcing in welfare services doesn't deliver an improvement in services while undermining pay, pensions and working conditions. Fagforbundet itself has highlighted some of the worst cases in Norway where outsourcing companies have cut pay or forced employees to work excessive hours.
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