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The leader of the ODM group, Sirin Stav, “forgets” the facts when she tries to absolve her own city council of 15,000 violations of the Work Environment Law.
Green Party city councilor Lan Marie Berg received harsh criticism but survived a vote of no confidence because Rødt did not want to overthrow the city council.
This was the backdrop when I compared the continued confidence to the outcome for Veireno boss Jonny Enger, who received 120 days in unconditional prison for just over 1,000 violations of the Work Environment Act.
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The politician gains full confidence after thousands of crimes, the private leader is imprisoned
The comparison hit ODM group leader Sirin Stav hard: – A new low, he writes, stating that “while Veireno’s boss let the violations of the work environment law spread, Lan Marie Berg cleaned up the conditions unsustainable in their sector as soon as the problems became known. “
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The wording is astute, and it is also Stav’s claim that Lan Marie Berg “inherited an unfortunate garbage collection contract from the bourgeoisie.”
The ODM group leader tries to write history as if the party’s city council did not bear responsibility for the problems that arose and acted immediately when things were brought to the table.
That is simply wrong.
After the winner of the red-green elections in 2015, Lan Marie Berg became councilor for environment and transport as of October 2015. The start of the Veireno garbage collection was not until October 2016, it is say, a year later.
In its report, the Municipal Audit strongly criticizes the poor work that was done in the mobilization phase since Councilor Lan Marie Berg took over and Veireno took over the garbage collection
The municipal audit writes, among other things, that demands were made for a capacity increase at Veireno that did not take into account the finances of the company, that no follow-up was given if the company had sufficient operational competence and that realistic tests were not carried out. or tests of the Veireno model.
The municipal audit asks directly if the risk should have been better assessed.
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The municipal audit claims that the city council department did not pay enough attention to the available information that indicated a significant risk in hiring: very low price, small supplier, simultaneous start-up in all areas and various innovative measures, the audit writes.
The MDG group leader is correct that the contract was signed when Lan Marie Berg started, but the Municipal Audit report shows that the MDG city council and its department also have an independent responsibility that the contract is unhappy, as Sirin Stav describes it.
When MDG’s Sirin Stav claims that Lan Marie Berg cleaned herself up as soon as the issues were known, it’s misleading. The scope of the crimes was highlighted in light of NRK reporter Vegard Venli, and breaches of hiring and employment regulations came to the table after the warnings.
Both the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Municipal Audit Office have investigated the numerous infractions at the Energy Recycling Agency (under Lan Marie Berg).
The PwC report reveals 807 crimes from January 2017 to March 2019, that is, crimes that occurred from a year and a half to almost four years after the red-green city council took over. Then it will be a bit easy to blame the predecessors.
You can read the report here: Investigation of the Energy Recovery Agency in the municipality of Oslo
PwC’s mandate was limited to finding facts, so it was the municipality of Oslo that had to assess whether the crimes should be punished (i.e. punished). He was also informed whether the prosecution should carry out evaluations of the crimes. Therefore, PwC also failed to assess the individual circumstances legally.
But the facts speak for themselves:
- The Energy Recovery Agency has repeatedly violated contracting rules due to poor organization and monitoring.
- PwC found 807 violations of the Work Environment Law among 98 different employees in the period January 2017 to March 2019, and notes that the violations started earlier.
- As early as November 2016, the Energy Recycling Agency reported crimes to the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority, but the City Council’s Department of Environment and Safety (MOS) claims they were not informed about it.
In April 2018, a representative of the Department of Environment and Security (MOS) of the City Council requested a summary of all the crimes of 2017 and 2018, and explained to PwC that the information was forwarded to the municipal director and political secretary of the municipality of Oslo.
Before an agency management meeting in October 2018, the Energy Recycling Agency made a presentation that was sent in advance. There, a slide showed several hundred violations of the Work Environment Law, but the municipal director informs PwC investigators that “due to time they did not have time to review all the slides.”
In other words, violations of the Work Environment Act were not taken more seriously.
PwC seriously concludes that the crimes were formally reported, “although MOS, for its part, has not prioritized reviewing all the slides.”
The conclusion is dry but clear: PwC “questions whether the MOS input described in this chapter is sufficient.”
The main impression after reading the numerous investigative reports is that the City Council’s Department of Environment and Security (MOS) was for a long time passive towards crimes, and that the reach and reaction came only after a journalist from NRK and various warnings forced them to come out.
The opposition has criticized this and wrote in a note to the Finance Committee in November:
«These members point out that in April 2018, the City Council became aware of violations of the work environment in the Energy Recovery Agency, 121 violations. In the fall of 2018, the city received information that there were 557 violations, and in February 2019 it received a report showing that there were 730 violations in total in 2017 and 2018. The city should have been informed immediately, further take within a week. It is reprehensible that the city council was not informed until April 2019, more than two months later, that “there may have been a breach of the Labor Environment Law in EGE. This at the same time that the city council put information that there had been 730 infractions. The memorandum sent by the city council in September 2019 does not yet have specific information to the city council bodies. It is very serious that only after the municipal elections did information emerge about the scope and seriousness of what happened.»They write in a note in November of this year.
Here you can read more:
Summary of investigations by the Municipal Audit Office in the Energy Recovery Agency and violations of working hours in the municipality of Oslo
When the matter arose in the Finance Committee in December, it was concluded that a unanimous commission advises the City Council to make the decision that “it takes seriously the conditions that have been revealed in terms of hiring, hours and employment.”
Criticism from the opposition is sharper and ended with motions of no confidence from Camilla Wilhelmsen of the Progress Party and Bjørn Revil of Popular Action No More Tolls (FNB).
In the proposal, they point out that there has been a lack of control with the Energy Recycling Agency for a long period of time, and a significant waste of public funds. Proponents believe that the city council has withheld particularly serious information for the city council, and that Councilor Lan Marie Berg should no longer be trusted by the city council.
At the December 9 meeting, the motion of censure against Lan Marie Berg was examined.
The vote of no confidence fell because Rødt did not want to throw away the red-green town hall, but the vote of no confidence got the votes of the Conservatives, Liberals, the FNB, the Progress Party and the Christian People’s Party.
The power and the majority rule.
But it is difficult to read the minutes and reports as a nasal admiration for the City Council’s handling of the ODMs, as Sirin Stav, leader of the ODM group at City Hall, puts it.
P.S! What do you mean? Is this a storm in a glass of water, or does Councilwoman Lan Marie Berg deserve criticism for the thousands of crimes that have occurred during the period in which she has been responsible? Write your opinion in a reader letter!
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