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XXL has complied with all orders from the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority, which found “serious” violations of the Work Environment Act after the E24 disclosures. It paves the way to reestablish the sports network’s national collaboration with Nav.
YOU CAN COOPERATE AGAIN: The Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority has closed your cases.
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Both Nav and XXL confirmed to E24 that they are now in “dialogue” after the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority closed their case against the sports network.
XXL has spent several months rectify a total of nine requests, once the February audit is completed “Serious” violations of the Work Environment Act at the XXL head office in Alnabru.
The backdrop for the XXL audit was, among other things, E24’s articles on working conditions at the sports network last fall, prompting the audit to launch its own investigations.
A letter sent by the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority to XXL, which has also received E24, summarizes all orders that have now been given the status of ‘fulfilled’.
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COMPLIED: In this letter, the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority confirms that XXL has complied with all orders after they found “serious” violations of the Work Environment Law in February.
Source: Letter from the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority to XXL.
Head of Navigation: You will soon meet XXL
Nav has required XXL to clean up all conditions outlined by the audit before they consider sending new users for measurements at XXL stores, as the agency has previously done on a large scale through a national collaboration.
Nav confirms that the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority has informed them that “the case has been closed”.
But they have not yet decided whether to resume cooperation with XXL, emphasizes the director of labor and services, Kjell Hugvik.
– We are in dialogue with them and we are planning a meeting at the end of November / December, writes the head of navigation in an email to E24.
Mars Ramuz Eriksen, XXL press contact, describes the new dialogue with Nav as “positive.”
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Put on ice
In a series of E24 articles, XXL employees have spoken about the systematic manufacture of sales figures, department store managers ordering push-ups, and employees who were denied food and punished with ice water during XXL’s intensive management training course.
This led Nav to go public with an index for its partner:
– Following media reports, we have contacted XXL management to ensure that these are not conditions that have affected the participants of our initiative. We have received assurances on this, Labor and Services Director Kjell Hugvik told E24 in September last year.
But when the sports network before Christmas presented an external investigation report confirming the aforementioned working conditions, XXL’s promises to Nav were not fulfilled.
Director of Labor and Services Kjell Hugvik at Nav
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In the new year, they decided to rather freeze their national collaboration with XXL, which each year has led to hundreds of Nav users being sent to various measures of the labor market in the sports chain stores. The most common measure has been job training.
XXL has not responded to E24’s questions about when they expect the collaboration to resume and whether they want to use the scheme to the same extent as before.
E24 has also asked Nav what possible guarantees they have received from XXL, and has asked how satisfied they are with the processes that the sports chain has carried out so far to improve their work environment.
The agency says they don’t want to answer such questions until they have completed their next meeting with XXL.
