Exceptions from ordinary working hours regulations
As a main rule, employees in scientific positions are regarded as occupying “particularly independent posts”, cf. section 10-12, second paragraph of the Norwegian Working Environment Act and section 13 no. 4 of the Basic Collective Agreement. This applies to posts such as lecturer, associate professor, professor, researcher, post-doctoral research fellow, scholarship holder and specialist graduate. As an automatic consequence of the above, these employees will not be governed by normal working hours regulations. More detailed information is provided in the guidelines for Regulation of Working Hours for Employees in Scientific Posts at the University of Oslo.
Normal working hours
Academic employees have the same working hours all year, and the 30-minute lunch break is unpaid and comes in addition to the 37.5 hours a week.
Teaching
Teaching is to be carried out during the normal working hours unless the nature of the teaching requires that the teaching has to take place at other times. In such cases, the employer may order an individual employee to provide teaching, for example in the case of higher and further e