Organises more than 400 companies in the municipal and

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KS Bedrift The Norwegian Employers Organisation
for Locally owned Enterprises

• Organises more than 400 companies in the
  municipal and
• county council sector, with a total workforce
  of more than
• 11000 persons.
• The members are wholly or partly owned by
  municipalities
• and county councils, or wholly or partly
  privately owned.
• Our goal is to protect and promote the common
  interests
• of our member companies with respect to
  employer issues
• and industry policy issues.

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KSB cont.

• We pride ourselves in our role as the number one
  specialist in Norway on companies from the
  municipal sector.
• We arrange courses and conferences for individual
  companies, or members within a specific industry
• - on legal issues, and a wide range of other
  business related issues.

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KSB cont.

• It is an important subject for KS Bedrift to
  promote the ideas
• of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). As
  is the case in
• the private sector, the issue of CSR likewise
  represents a
• major challenge to publicly owned enterprises
  and their owners.
• As a long-time member of CEEP (The European
  Centre of
• Enterprises with Public Participation and of
  Enterprises of
• General Economic Interest), we are also working
  for the
• improvement of our members external conditions
  at the
• European level.

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KSB cont.

• KS Bedrift has its own board of directors, and
  is as such
• an independent organisation, run by its
  members.
• However, we are an integrated part of KS
• - the Norwegian Association of Local and
  Regional
• Authorities, and, consequently, we can draw on
  the use of
• important channels of influence of national
  politics.

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• More information on
• www.ks-bedrift.no

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KS Norwegian Association of Local and Regional
Authorities (NALRA)

• National members association for local
  government
• 433 municipalities, 19 counties and 418 public
  enterprises (01.05.2005)
• Interest and employer organisation
• Spokesman vis-à-vis central government
• Central collective bargaining organisation
• Advisory and consulting body

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NALRA - Organisation

• National Congress
• National Standing Committee
• Executive Committee
• Two working committees
• Labour relations committee
• Policy committee
• Headquarters in Oslo (approx. 160 employees)
• 17 regional offices with County Executive
  Committees and secretariats (total approx. 60
  employees)

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