The Swedish regular framework of laws and collective agreements encompass all employees, in general terms. The overall goal, for the Swedish labour market policy, as stated by the Social Democrat Government is to promote a well functioning labour market. The most important measures for the labour
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On Wednesday 25 January 2006, about 500 pilots employed by the Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) airline in Denmark went back to work at Kastrup Airport after three days of wildcat strikes. Almost simultaneously, the Swedish Labour Court (Arbetsdomstolen) decided that the strike actions were
After about three months of negotiations, bargaining over a new collective agreement for power station workers between the Energy Employers’ Association (Energiföretagarnas Arbetsgivarförening, EFA) and the Swedish Electricians’ Union (Svenska Elektrikerförbundet, SEF) broke down on 11 November 2005
30 November 2005 the Commissioner Gudmund Toijer handed over a proposal about a stronger right to full-time employment applying to the whole Swedish labour market ('Stärkt rätt till heltidsanställning', SOU: 2005:105) to the Working Life Minister Hans Karlsson. The most important provisions of the
The Commission started in June 2004 to examine a possible legal surveillance of the observance of the collective agreements. The Special Commissioner Birgitta Nyström, Professor in Labour Law, handed over the Committee Report (SOU 2005:89) to Working Life Minister Hans Karlsson 7 November 2005. The
The Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisationen, LO) and the Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia (Latvijas Brīvo Arodbiedrību savienība, LBAS), concluded 13 October 2005 a cooperation agreement aimed at avoiding social dumping. The two parties state that one of the general
The Swedish Labour Court (Arbetsdomstolen) gave in 21 September 2005 a judgment in a case where a female job applicant was turned down because she was too short for the job she applied for. Her height being 160 centimeter was 3 centimeters below the demands that the company, Volvo Cars (Volvo
In April 2004 (SE0406102N [1]), the government appointed a commission to examine the parental leave and benefits system from the perspective of whether it functions in the best way for children and contributes to greater equality between the sexes (Dir.2004:44). The commission was headed by Karl
Wage differentials in Sweden are increasing, the blue-collar Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisationen, LO) states in its 2005 wage report (Lönerapport år 2005 [1]), which examines pay developments from 1994 to 2004. The wage statistics in the report, which was published in