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  • Diversity
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  • Gender
  • Health
  • Human capital
  • Industrial change
  • Industrial relations
  • Labour market
  • Participation at work
  • Population and society
  • Quality of life
  • Quality of work
  • Social cohesion
  • Social protection
  • Time
  • Work-life balance
  • Work organisation

INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT

Name used for the most important of the four fundamental legal instruments which make up Sweden's Constitution (see constitutional law). Dating from 1974, it contains the central rules on the country's government and the manner in which statutes and other enactments are adopted. It also includes a chapter on the fundamental rights and freedoms enjoyed by the individual citizen in relation to the State and all other public authorities. Several of these rights are of relevance to the circumstances of working life (see constitutional law).