You can have your childcare expenses and lost wages covered
It is free to participate in union representative courses at NITO. Do you have extra expenses for babysitting or do you get time off without pay? See how you can get your expenses reimbursed.
Do you have extra expenses for childcare while you are on a course?
NITO can reimburse up to NOK 600 a day for costs that are in addition to what you otherwise pay for kindergarten, after-school care or similar.
- The costs must be clarified with the course coordinator in advance
- After the course is submitted, you fill out the form below, which is then scanned and entered into NITO's travel expense management system on My page
- Tax is deducted from the refund
Leave without pay? NITO covers lost earnings
You are entitled to time off to attend courses - and most people will get paid time off. But if you get time off without pay, NITO will pay your salary.
How you proceed to get reimbursement for lost earnings depends on whether the employer deducts your salary directly or whether they pay wages as usual, and NITO will reimburse them.
When your employer deducts your salary for the time you are on a course
- Get your employer to fill out the form below confirming that they have deducted your salary
- Then you sign the form, scan it and enter it via My page.
Alternatively, you can ask your employer to confirm the following information in an email:
We can hereby confirm that X.X. employed by us will be deducted from salary with NOK XXXX (including or excluding holiday pay), for absence in connection with courses/meetings in the period date from - date to.
- Attach a pdf printout of the email from your employer as documentation for your claim for reimbursement. You submit this via My page.
- You can also use a copy of your payslip where the salary deduction appears as documentation.
When NITO is to reimburse your employer for salary that they have paid to you
If you are granted leave without pay, your employer may choose to pay you salary as usual. NITO will then pay back to your employer your salary for the time you are on the course.
- You fill out your part of the form below and submit it to the employer
- The employer fills in their part and sends the form as an attachment to the invoice (without VAT) to NITO as an e-invoice or by e-mail to