Keflavík International Airport, and the associated businesses around it, are the biggest employer in the southwest Iceland Suðurnes region – providing jobs for up to 1,800 people.
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International airport is biggest employer in southwest Iceland
Posted on 23 February 2012.
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Workplace drug tests increase tenfold
Posted on 07 February 2012.
More Finnish employees are being tested for drug use than ever before, according to a new report.
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63 jobs shed at Íslandsbanki
Posted on 30 November 2011.
16 men and 26 women were yesterday made redundant from Íslandsbanki bank in Iceland. A statement from the bank says the redundancies are an unavoidable consequence of its recent government-mediated merger with the troubled BYR savings bank. In addition to the redundancies a further 21 employees will leave the company in a combination of retirements [...]
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Nokia to cut 17,000 jobs
Posted on 30 November 2011.
Finnish-German telecoms giant Nokia Siemens has surprised the business world by announcing 17,000 job cuts, representing a very-significant 23 percent of its workforce.
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Unemployed in Iceland to get Christmas bonus
Posted on 22 November 2011.
The Icelandic government has approved a request for job seekers in the country to be paid a Christmas bonus again this year.
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Durex advertises ‘hard but satisfying’ job
Posted on 06 July 2011.
The Swedish branch of Durex has caused a surge of excitement after launching an advertising campaign appealing for condom testers.
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Iceland’s new national wage contract signed
Posted on 07 May 2011.
Iceland’s overdue national wage contract has now been signed by 12 trades unions, the Icelandic Confederation of Labour and the Icelandic Confederation of Employers.
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Iceland “could create up to 1500 more fish processing jobs”
Posted on 17 March 2011.
The Icelandic nation could benefit by ISK six billion (EUR 37.1 million) a year if all its fish catches were landed and processed domestically. So says the head of the country’s fish processors’ and exporters’ association.
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