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15th November 2022
The unpaid December allowance is 94,119 ISK. At the same time, jobseekers with dependent children receive a special December allowance for each child under the age of 18.
8th November 2022
A digital application for parental leave is now also open to expectant parents who are studying, who are out of the labour market, and those who receive unemployment benefits.
8th September 2022
Services for applicants for international protection have been transferred from the Directorate of Immigration to the Directorate of Labour. The changes took effect on July 1st.
6th July 2022
The Directorate of Labour's Payment Office has moved to a new office building on the 2nd floor at Túnbraut 1-3 in Skagaströnd.
The Directorate of Labour has now for the first time produced a report on the exercise of rights under the law on parental leave no. 144/2020.
3rd June 2022
A new digital application for parental leave has been opened and expectant parents who are paid workers can apply for parental leave in a simple, digital and user-friendly way.
22nd April 2022
The Welfare Committee has decided in cases 521, 530, 534 and 616/2021 that the holiday and holiday allowance should not result in a reduction in the part-time allowance in the month in which the payment of the holiday was made.
2nd March 2022
Yesterday, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, and Unnur Sverrisdóttir signed an agreement on the Ministry’s funding of ISK 25,000 to the pilot project Roadmap.
11th January 2022
Unemployment registered at 4.9% in December, the highest level since November. The number of unemployed rose by an average of 74 since November.
4th January 2022
No notifications of collective redundancies were received by the Directorate of Labour in December 2021. In 2021, the Directorate of Labour received 9 notifications of collective redundancies, where 497 people were dismissed.
