Personnel leasing/secondment (personaluthyrning) is the Swedish term for the situation whereby persons under an employment contract with one firm are leased to work in another firm. It covers arrangements known variously as hiring-out of labour or temporary agency work in other countries. The
On 17 April 1998, the blue-collar Municipal Workers' Union (Svenska Kommunalarbetareförbundet, Kommunal) signed collective agreements with the Association of Local Authorities (Kommunförbundet), the Federation of County Councils (Landstingsförbundet) and the Association of the Parishes within the
The major strike in Denmark's private sector in April-May 1998 (DK9805168F [1]) indirectly caused a dispute in Sweden. When the SAS airline tried to reroute its flights scheduled for Copenhagen to Sweden, the Swedish Transport Workers' Union (Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet, Transport) notified
Currently, Sweden's Act on Seamen's Hours of Work regulates working hours at sea/./ Average working time must not exceed 40 hours a week, but a seafarer can have as many as 56 working hours scheduled per week. This is compensated for by longer periods of free time ashore. The only provision on rest
In 1992, the Swedish Employers' Confederation (Svenska Arbetsgivareföreningen, SAF) terminated the collective agreement on the work environment with the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen, LO) and the Federation of Salaried Employees in Industry and Services
A new agreement on wages and working conditions for 180,000 blue-collar workers in the Swedish retail trade was signed on 20 March 1998. For the first time, the settlement is a three-party agreement between the Commercial Employees Union, (Handelsanställdas förbund, Handels) and the two employers'
According to a study conducted by Statistics Sweden (SCB) in spring 1997, around 250,000 employees, or around 7% of the employed workforce, have agreed with their employers to work partly at home on a regular basis. Telework is more frequent among municipal employees (13%) and those employed by the