Overview of Payroll in Norway

Navigating Norwegian payroll can be challenging due to its complex legal and regulatory landscape. This comprehensive 4 hour course is designed to provide in-depth knowledge and practical insights into the core elements of Norwegian payroll.

Ideal for professionals working with or responsible for payroll, the course focuses on real-world application, ensuring participants gain the confidence to manage payroll accurately and in compliance with current laws.

This course is suitable for those who work with payroll and HR on a daily basis, and want to gain more knowledge, introduction to the latest changes both in rules and system functionality and a forum where you can ask questions and get answers. 

At the end of this course delegates will received a detailed overview of the complex Norwegian payroll legislation and gain the knowledge and confidence to understand the fundamentals of payroll processing in Norway. They are clear about employer obligations, calculation of gross pay and deduction, know what they need to do on a periodic and annual basis, can answer employee queries and check payslips and other forms. The course will give the participants the knowledge to know were to find it.  

The course will give the participants knowledge about which specialist sources to use and find answers when there is a need for it in the future. Which websites are considered safe sources. 

 ✓ Introduction to all relevant authorities, websites and official offices in Norway
 ✓ Introduction to all relevant Norwegian laws (Working environment Act, Holiday Act, Nathional Insurance Act, Tax Law, VAT Act for travel expenses etc)
 ✓ How to handle travel expenses
 ✓ Reimbursement off expenses and expenses without documentation
 ✓ Company cars
 ✓ A-melding reporting
 ✓ Pension reporting

 ✓ Social security fee
 ✓ Employee contribution
 ✓ Employee tax
 ✓ Different type off employment
 ✓ Employer obligations
 ✓ Official reporting and payment deadlines
 ✓ The cash principal

 ✓ Union Trade Agreement in Norway
 ✓ Rules and calculation off overtime
 ✓ Rules and payment on public holidays
 ✓ Rules for deduction in salary

 ✓ Advance payment
 ✓ Taxable and non-taxable benefits
 ✓ Holiday year versus earning year
 ✓ Vacation money rules and calculation
 ✓ Employees age 60+

 ✓ Illness during holiday
 ✓ Holiday settlement for leavers
 ✓ Half tax month in November or December
 ✓ Absence, rules, employer responsibility, reporting and calculation off absence
 ✓ Paid and un-paid absence
 ✓ Employee reported absence, shorth term sick leave and long term sick leave
 ✓ Maternity and paternity leave
 ✓ How to handle chronic illness  
 ✓ Yearend closing, important deadlines, how to prepare, what to report
 ✓ Accounting year versus payroll year