How to unionise freelancers and the solo self- employed? Experiences from Norway

Johanne Stenseth Huseby and Kristin Alsos Brief May 2024 How to unionise freelancers and the solo self- employed? Experiences from Norway In the changing world of work, where new technology has paved the way for more fragmented employment relationships, national and EU-level initiatives have been taken to strengthen social dialogue for non-standard workers, freelancers and the solo self-employed. [...] Another example is the way in and traditional employees has gained broader which certain trade unions and NGOs have specific attention, where the focus has been on more requirements for their applicants to be accepted as vulnerable groups of solo self-employed, and where members, for instance based on education or the differences in social security arrangements and sick quality of their work. [...] Norwegian Actors’ Union, the Norwegian Dancers’ Union, and the Association of Norwegian The- The extent to which Norwegian trade unions and atres and Orchestras (SKUDA, n.d.). [...] This policy brief is produced as part of the project ‘Increasing capacity Johanne Stenseth Huseby is a research assistant at Fafo Institute of of the unions in the Czech Republic’, led by the Research Institute for Labour and Social Research. [...] Labour and Social Affairs, RILSA and supported by the Norwegian Grants 2014–2021, in the frame of the Social Dialogue – Decent Work Kristin Alsos is senior researcher at Fafo Institute of Labour and Social Program Czech Republic.