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GRAY: Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre says he is growing gray due to what he believes is the government’s lack of action against youth unemployment. Photo: TORE KRISTIANSEN
One in four unemployed or laid-off people is under the age of 30 and has a lower than average education. Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre says he fears a lost crown generation.
Støre opened the Storting Question Time on Wednesday by confronting Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) with what he believes is a lack of commitment to reducing unemployment among the very young.
– There is very little government action. We risk a lost crown generation, he said.
– Why is it not an effort to get young people out of the queue? Why so passive, he added.
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Deeply disagree
– I shouldn’t be surprised if you totally disagree, Erna Solberg replied.
He referred to 7,000 new initiative positions in the state budget for 2021, according to the budget agreement with Frp, and the government’s educational push that allows the replacement of competencies while people are laid off.
QUESTION PERIOD: Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre attacked the government and Prime Minister Erna Solberg (H) for lack of commitment to youth unemployment. Photo: TORE KRISTIANSEN
But she did not disagree that those now being fired are a vulnerable group:
– The most injured are those who have been unemployed and laid off, because they have a generally lower education and need replacement of skills.
– When Støre and I were young, 70 percent of jobs were open to the unskilled. Now the ratio is only about 10 percent, Solberg said.
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Støre reiterated the Labor Party’s demand for vacation pay for the unemployed calculated on the basis of unemployment benefits, which the bourgeois parliamentary majority eliminated in 2015, and which the Labor Party says is deeply unfair.
– Does the prime minister believe that chef Robin, who has been fired in Bergen, will be more motivated to apply for a job if he does not receive vacation pay? Støre asked.
Tall and brown
Solberg accused the Labor Party of getting “high and dark” now, but noted that the party had no money to pay for holidays in its alternative budgets between 2016 and 2020.
– I have gray hair and every time I get more gray from this. When 100,000 are fired, it’s about fairness and decency, Støre said.
