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Temporary work agencies: misfits in Nordic working life?
This year will see the implementation of the EU directive on temporary agency work which is meant to improve labour mobility and facilitate the growth in temporary work agencies. It will also lay down demands for equal treatment of permanent staff and workers recruited through temporary work agencies.
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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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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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EU Commission critical to Swedish laws
Sweden could be forced to change its rules on temporary employment after pressure from the European Commission. It has voiced doubts over whether Swedish laws comply with EU’s fixed-term work directive (1999:70).
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The Laval case, act III – Sweden’s Labour Court rules union must pay high damages
The Labour Court judgment is important in principle and very controversial. For the first time in EU history a trade union is made to pay damages after industrial action contrary to EU-law.
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Working con amore
After fifteen years in Italy, it feels wonderful to be taken on the wings of the Scandinavian labour market. Not under! That’s the whole point.
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Spread of franchises weakens unions
Nordic trade unions have been very active in the fight against social dumping of foreign labour. But little has been done to stop entire business sectors from adapting the franchise model – a model which pushes aside most union rights.
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Fighting over the unemployed
Denmark is changing tack to attract manpower in the face of record low unemployment figures. The transport sector shows the way.
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Commission Green Paper on labour law and the challenges of the 21st century
The Barrosso Commission of the European Union presented in late 2006 a Green Paper entitled “Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century”. The paper has received reactions and comments during the whole of spring. The general assessment is that the Nordic countries and the Nordic social partners have been rather critical…
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