Laundry workers get new pay scale and March 2027 benefit-advance duty

Production, transport and storage, production-equipment assembly and maintenance, production-premises cleaning and guarding staff in laundries and dry cleaners work under Avtale 105Styrke between Norsk Industri (NHO) and Forbundet Styrke (LO). It covers part-timers, bars sub-floor hiring, can extend to staffing agencies hiring into its scope, and runs 1 May 2026 to 30 April 2028Styrke, continuing yearly absent two months' written notice.

From 1 May 2026 new hires take kr 247.08 an hour during the first six months' trainingStyrke, then the starter rate of kr 258.58, followed by the seniority steps kr 262.54, kr 266.52 and kr 271.06 up to kr 274.06, converted for shorter shift weeks. Service counts equally for full- and part-timers, including agency, holiday-relief and seasonal time, plus pregnancy, care, military and civilian absence; apprentices moving to the trade take at least the four-year rate plus the trade supplement. Machinists and boiler attendants with certificates draw at least kr 4.50 extra, drivers kr 5 plus kr 5 more at 3 500 kg and another kr 5 at 7 500 kg, relevant trade certificates kr 15.74 with half again for a second one, and workers over 50 with ten unqualified years can earn half trade-supplement status by passing the practical trade test. A low-wage guarantee adjusts the section 3.1 rates each 1 May by the gap between the sector's average and 86 per cent of the average industrial wageStyrke, with interim bargaining aiming to keep its growth on a path that leaves the guarantee dormant. Economic effects apply from 1 May but pay out only once adopted, with no recalculation of supplements earned before adoption.

Day work averages 37.5 hours a week; two-shift 36.5, or 35.5/37.5 alternating where afternoon weeks run past 21.00; round-the-clock three-shift 35.5; fully continuous shift 33.6. Overtime pays 50 per cent, 100 on Saturdays after ordinary hours, pre-holiday days, Sundays and holidays, and 21.00 to 06.00 after half a day's work; extra shifts pay 50 per cent, 100 on Sundays and holidays, on top of shift pay. Call-outs pay at least two hours plus travel. Same-day overtime over two hours brings food or kr 114, and short-notice shift changes a kr 1 000 lump sum. Drivers ordered through the statutory 35-hour refresher under the yrkessjåførforskriften get course costs plus the scale rate without supplements for up to 35 free-time hours every fifth year, repayable pro rata on leaving within a year.

From 1 March 2027 employers must advance sick-, care- and parental benefits for new casesStyrke, without weakening better company schemes. Advances match the NAV refund, which accrues to the employer, run at most four months including the employer period per calendar year, and need one month's notice before stopping. They require six months' continuous service and lapse on disclosure or cooperation breach, NAV refusal, or the end of employment; non-EEA certificates count once NAV confirms refund rights, and erroneous advances are repaid under written agreement. No differential treatment is allowed, and benefit rights stay an employee–NAV matter outside the local dispute system.

Hiring-in is discussed with the elected representatives first; agency staff keep the hirer's terms under arbeidsmiljøloven section 14-12 a except pensions, with terms documented on request, as for subcontractors. The employer supplies and launders workwear and footwear, with local footwear guidelines due by 1 October. Pregnant employees transfer where possible without pay loss; care leave under section 12-3 is paid at ordinary salary. Legal basis: Overenskomst for Vask og renserier (avtale 105) between Norsk Industri/NHO and Forbundet Styrke/LO with the Hovedavtalen between LO and NHO, whose benefit-advance terms invoke folketrygdloven section 8-17 and whose driver-training terms invoke the yrkessjåførforskriften 35-hour refresher.