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This week, SV will present a new proposal at the Storting for zero layoffs, SV leader Audun Lysbakken declared when speaking to the party’s national board on Saturday.
– In Norway, tough demands are made on people who receive state aid. Why shouldn’t such tough demands be placed on the rich and big business when they are the ones getting help?Lysbakken said.
– Skulker dugnadnaden
It refers, among other things, to the Compass Group company, which manages, among other things, the Eurest canteen chain, and the Scandic hotel chain, which have recently laid off some 300 employees.
– Totally unacceptable, says Lysbakken, who believes that companies are thus avoiding donating crona.
It notes that Compass Group received NOK 12 million in crown support last year, while Scandic received a total of NOK 192 million.
– There is no contribution unless the money from the crisis also benefits workers. What if people with permanent jobs are fired now and instead hired as freelancers when times improve? he asks.
– Afternoon in the field
On Friday, the government presented a proposal to extend the period of unemployment benefits so that the unemployed can continue the benefit until July 1. But Lysbakken again accuses the government of being late.
– Time and again it is the opposition that pushes the government to action, he says.
The SV leader also demands better crisis aid for vulnerable industries, an extended crown supplement on unemployment benefits, that the layoff period be extended to 18 months, that more people with small jobs and low wages have the opportunity to receive unemployment benefits and to expand support for the self-employed.
No to curfew
Lysbakken is also very critical of the curfew proposal that the government has sent for consultation.
– It is completely irrelevant to accept it. It is simply an unorthodox solution, says the SV leader, who fears that if the Storting adopts the government’s proposal, it will lower the threshold to introduce a curfew.
