Pharma operators get agreed sick-pay advance duty from 1 January 2027

Operators in pharmaceutical production, transport and storage, assembly, maintenance, parts warehousing, cleaning, canteens, guarding and standby, plus related control, inspection and coordination, work under Avtale 109Styrke 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 until 30 April 2028, continuing yearly absent two months' written notice.

No adult is paid below kr 229.46 per hourStyrke on a 37.5-hour week, converted for shorter shift weeks. The floor is renegotiated each main settlement for 1 May against industrial wage growth and company finances, without lifting anyone already at or above it; where the jump would directly cost jobs, the local and central parties may set a lower transitional rate. Seniority adds kr 2, kr 3.50, kr 6 and kr 8 per hour after one, three, five and seven years, non-cumulatively, counting military, civilian, pregnancy and care leave. Relevant trade certificates add kr 20 per hour, at most twice, alongside locally agreed job supplements. In the second agreement year the minimum, seniority and shift rates are renegotiated against the area's wage growth per the Hovedtabellen, normally from 1 May.

Day work averages 37.5 hours a week; two-shift 36.5, or 35.5 with rostered Sunday or holiday work; round-the-clock three-shift 35.5; fully continuous shift 33.6. Work ends at noon on Christmas, New Year, Easter and Whitsun eves and at 14.00 before other holidays, paid as a full day. Day-worker overtime pays 50 per cent to 21.00 and 100 per cent after, on Saturdays, pre-holiday days, Sundays and holidays; shift extra shifts pay 50 per cent, 100 at night and on Sundays and holidays, on top of shift pay. Call-outs pay at least two hours plus travel; voluntary off-duty calls pay per commenced hour. Same-day overtime over two hours brings food or kr 114, and imposed temporary shift changes a kr 1 400 lump sum, kr 700 with 14 days' notice.

From 1 January 2027Styrke employers must advance sick-, care- and parental benefitsStyrke 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 § 14-12 a except pensions, with terms documented on request, as for subcontractors. Pregnant employees transfer where possible without pay loss and skip nights as far as practicable; care leave under § 12-3 is paid at ordinary salary. Three years' service brings two months' full post-mortem pay. Holiday follows ferieloven, plus 0.4 per cent after three months and 0.8 after six in continuous shift. Legal basis: Overenskomst for Farmasøytiske bedrifter (avtale 109) between Norsk Industri/NHO and Forbundet Styrke/LOStyrke with the Hovedavtalen between LO and NHO, applying folketrygdloven chapter 8 and arbeidsmiljøloven chapters 10, 12 and 14.