Frode Martin Toftevåg

Toftevåg worked in the employment law department of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) from 2008 until 2015.

Through his work at the NHO, he has acquired in-depth knowledge of, and insight into the Norwegian practice of tripartite cooperation (between the government, employers’ associations and trade unions), employment policy and the unionised labour market. Among other things, he chaired the body that administers the contractual early retirement pension scheme (AFP) in the Norwegian private sector (Fellesordningen for Avtalefestet Pensjon og Sluttvederlagsordningen). He is also co-author of an annotated version of the Labour Disputes Act.

Toftevåg is currently considered one of the country’s foremost experts on employee protection rules applying to business transfers. His advice in this area is sought by a number of large Norwegian enterprises, and he frequently lectures on the topic.

He also has considerable experience of handling disputes relating to the employee protection rules applying to business transfers and has represented clients in a great many cases before the ordinary Norwegian courts, the Labour Court of Norway and the EFTA Court.

Toftevåg has extensive experience of advising on pension-related matters. He previously chaired the body that administers the contractual early retirement pension scheme (AFP) in the Norwegian private sector (Fellesordningen for Avtalefestet Pensjon og Sluttvederlagsordningen) and has served on the AFP complaints board (Klagenemnden for AFP-saker). He is currently considered one of the country’s foremost experts on the AFP early retirement scheme.

He has specialist expertise in the contractual early retirement pension scheme (AFP) in the Norwegian private sector.