EU & Labour Law
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Nordic worry over EU internal market package
The European Commission’s proposal for how to apply the EU directive on the posting of workers must not limit our powers to control foreign companies! That was the unified message from government officials, authority representatives, the social partners and researchers from all Nordic countries when they met in Oslo to discuss how to deal with…
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Nordic opposition to minimum wage shows lack of solidarity?
Should we have a statutory minimum wage? Absolutely not say Nordic trade unions, and they’re usually backed by employers’ organisations. It’s an attitude people elsewhere in Europe find difficult to understand.
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The Commission wants to exclude small businesses from working environment rules
In the Nordic countries small businesses must follow the same working environment rules as big businesses. Now the EU Commission wants to ease the regulations for smaller businesses.
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Unique collective agreement for Sweden’s staffing agencies
Staffing agencies in Sweden are experiencing a boom. In the last quarter of 2010 turnovers were up 42 percent on 2009 figures. Staffing agencies do however provoke conflicting feelings and staffing was one of the key themes during the latest collective bargaining process.
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Time for transnational collective agreements?
This year workers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will be told how many shares they have earned in the French corporation Suez S.A.
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Agency workers should have equal rights
Workers hired through labour agencies should be granted the same rights to salaries, holidays and working hours as if they were hired directly by the company employing them, says a Swedish special investigator.
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Will Lex Laval work?
On 9 September the Swedish Building Workers’ Union (Byggnads) took industrial action against a Lithuanian company building a school in Höllviken in Southern Sweden. The union demanded the company paid its Lithuanian workers according Swedish salary agreements. Are we heading towards a new Laval ruling?
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Curtain fall for the Laval case
Sweden’s Supreme Court has refused to reverse the Swedish Labour Court’s judgement in the Laval case. Now a labour law expert says the state should pay the considerable compensation which trade unions have been ordered to pay.
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Swedish Metall on trusting the adversary
“What you absolutely must not do during wage negotiations is to lie. You don’t have to put all your cards on the table, but if you lie you loose all trust.”
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Swedish unions want annulment of Laval judgement
The Swedish Supreme Court must annul the judgment of the Swedish Labour Court in the Laval case! That’s what the Swedish Building Workers’ Union and the Swedish Electricians’ Union demand.
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