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The government is planning to reform unemployment insurance by basing it on current employment income, rather than calculating it on the basis of the years of service in work …

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Although Sweden is often regarded as a high tax, low growth economy, it is amongst the few advanced European economies to show both a current account surplus and low public debt …

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The government intends to move the responsibility for wage guarantee payments from the county administrative boards to the Swedish Tax Agency …

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The Supreme Administrative Court (Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen or “SAC”) has ruled in two important cases (441-22 and 3375-22) that a more restrictive consideration should be given to injuries in respect to home workers – whether or not the home working was voluntary or under direction of an employer …

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Although the European Commission drove through Directive (2022/2041) last year to impose a statutory minimum wage in countries that did not have them, a number of EU Member States hung out against the move and both Denmark and Sweden have subsequently taken the Case to The European Court of Justice (ECJ) …

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Under the current system operated by the Swedish Migration Agency, a number of companies that meet certain criteria have a special status which allows applications to be expedited …

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Employers have just concluded an agreement with four industry trade unions …

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Employers should be mindful that if an employee is on probation, they are still protected from discriminatory decisions …

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The number of people being notified of impending redundancy has risen to a far higher rate than this time last year …

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New requirement for monthly PAYE tax returns …

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The new law on employment protection came officially into force on 30th June 2022, but the rules only applied from 1st October 2022 …

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Work permit changes took effect on 1st June 2022 …

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What has been described as the “greatest reform of Swedish employment law in modern times” will take place on 1st October 2022 …

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Pending changes to the Employment Protection Act (LAS) will make it easier to deal with employee dismissals …

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The reasons for the low incidence of disputes were the pandemic and because, in recent years, there has been a high degree of cooperation between the union movement and government in power …

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