UPDATE: Hi guys I have gotten my money!!😃 I send him an e-mail yesterday and now I have gotten the salary that was owed but not the interest or the vacation money. He told me that I will be getting my vacation money in September since the payday of this month has passed so I will be looking out for that… I also did not receive a lønnslip so I will ask for that too so I can check with the tax so I won’t have a suprise next year when it’s time to do taxes. Thank you all for your help💖

Hi there!

I am a 24F from the Netherlands that moved to Norway from February this year. Since I am en EU/EAA national I just needed (in my case) at least a 60% job to get my Norwegian ID number.

When I first got here I got a part time job at a supermarket for 60% so I could get started on getting my paperwork. At this time I did not have a D or ID number but you can start working. In March I got my D number so I could get a bank account and phone number. Shortly after that I got my ID number. Before I got a bank account I gave all the hours I worked to my employer manually (its a big franchise in Norway so he had to forward these hours to the financial dep.). We agreed that I would get this money when my bank account was officially open.

To this day I never received the money that I worked for in February and March this year. I got all the money since I got my ID number but not from before. Now this is not a large amount of money (around 8300NOK) but I am owed this money. Now I have a great 100% job at a corporate company but I still did not get the money from my previous job. I did not except to have this issues when moving to Norway but I kind of feel taken advantage of?

I have talked with him about it numerous times and he said I would get my money in June and he had given me some money in advance which I thought was from my March/February paycheck. Fast forward to normal payday and he withheld the money he gave me in advance from my June paycheck🤦🏻‍♀️

I have talked about this with someone here who knows a lot about this and she said I should get a meeting with him so I did. I explained everything and he said he will look into it with the financial department and that I would get my money on the following payday. So far nothing…. I am really stuck on what to do. I trust that my employer told the payroll/financial deperment that I am owned money but at this point I am really frustrated and just want my money. I am lucky that I moved in with my boyfriend so I did not have to pay rent (I do contribute now) because then the situation would have been different. Do any of you have some advice for me?