Part-time employee? Register to claim back pay 

You are a part-time employee if you are employed to work less than an average of 37 hours per week.

Once you have registered, you can leave the rest to us for now. We will contact you once we are ready to review your case. At that time, we will also inform you of the documents we need to receive from you. 

No. If you have already registered as a part-time employee when we did the announcement in the autumn of 2025, you do not need to do anything further for now. We will contact you once we are ready to review your case. At that time, we will also inform you of the documents we need to receive from you. 

If you are unsure whether you have already registered, you are welcome to register again. The last deadline for registration is 24th of June 2026.

This depends, among other things, on the agreement made with employers regarding the process. In connection with OK26 for public sector employees, we have agreed with employers that the process for initiating proceedings must be established by 1 May 2026. We will contact you again as soon as we have an agreement in place.

This matter also involves a very large case processing task where individual claims for tens of thousands of part-time employees need to be assessed and wage payments from five to ten years back must be reviewed. The case processing therefore may take a while, and it is difficult to say when you can expect to receive your money.

However, it is crucial that you register as soon as possible so that you can be part of the agreement on the suspension of the limitation period.

It depends on the amount of extra work that can be documented for which you have not received correct payment and on the rules that apply to your collective agreement. The claims must be calculated individually, so specifying an exact amount is not possible. The ruling means that you are entitled to the difference between the pay you have received and the overtime pay that applies to your collective agreement.

If you are/have been employed part-time within an FOA area, are a member of FOA and have registered on our list of part-time employees, FOA will handle your case and assess whether money may be owed to you. We first need to calculate a claim that we can send to your employer. The claim is based on the hours for which it can be documented that you worked more than agreed without receiving overtime pay. After that, the usual procedure will most often be for the employer to review the claim before any outstanding pay can be paid to you.

We are still in the process of reviewing the implications of the ruling for flexiworkers. It requires a thorough assessment, so we do not yet have a clear answer. We still advise you to register so that we can contact you when we have more information.

Work schedules are not the only documentation that can be used. Your payslips, balance and working hours statements often show the number of overtime hours for which you have been paid – thus how many hours for which you may be owed back pay.

However, you do not need to send us documentation quite yet. For now, you just need to register using the form above. We will contact you once we are ready to review your case. At that time, we will also inform you of the documents we need to receive from you.

You do not need to send us any documentation quite yet. Initially, you just need to register using the form above. When we are ready to process your case, we assume that we will need information about your employment relationship – for example your employment contract, payslips, balance and working hours statements, interim statements/information about the standard period etc.

We will contact you once we are ready to review your case. At that time, we will also inform you of the documents we need to receive from you.

If your work has been covered by a collective agreement concluded by FOA, FOA is the party to make claims within the industrial disputes system. This applies even if you are currently a member of a different union.

If a claim is to be made outside the industrial disputes system, it must be done through the ordinary courts and according to the rules applicable to civil proceedings. In that case, please contact your current union or seek other advice.

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In the public sector, the change is part of the recently concluded collective bargaining, OK26. This means that the provisions that were contrary to EU rules have been amended to comply with the decision from the industrial arbitration. You will therefore receive correct payment in the future. However, the ruling may also have retrospective implications.

We are currently reviewing the consequences it may have for social security benefits, among other things. It requires a thorough assessment, so we do not yet have a clear answer.

We will get back to you with more information once we know the details.

If you have any questions, please contact your local union.

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