Working conditions

Overtime payment and remuneration for travel, board and lodging:  
Ordinary working hours in Norway are 9 hours per day and 40 hours per week. If you work longer than the ordinary working hours, you are entitled to overtime pay. You can enter into a written agreement with your employer to work longer days and longer weeks, to work in hours to take time off in lieu, without your employer having to pay you overtime rates. But if your hours on average are longer than 40 hours per week, you still are entitled to overtime pay for the exceeding hours.
 
Your employer can not demand that you work at all hours. Work on Sundays and night work is only permitted in Norway for very specific reasons. For work after ordinary working hours a 50 % supplement to hourly pay must be paid. For work between 9 pm and 6 am, and on Sundays and public holidays, a 100 % supplement to hourly pay must be paid. 

It is important to be aware that it applies strict rules about working hours in Norway. If you work too much, may also be a problem when the authorities will consider renewal of a work permit. Contact the union for information about which rules apply.  

If you are sent on an assignment where overnight absence from home is necessary, an agreement should be concluded on compensation of necessary travelling costs at the start and the end of the assignment, as well as for a reasonable number of journeys home during the assignment.  Before you are sent an agreement on board and lodgings should be concluded. The main rule is that the employer pays for board and lodging. Moreover, it is the employer's responsibility to provide work clothes, protective equipment, and proper restrooms.

More information in English at Fellesforbundet's web page:
http://www.fellesforbundet.no/internet/templates/DocumentList.aspx?id=2361