In the financial crisis lost a 100,000 of the Swedish blue-collar workers in their jobs for two years. In the vast majority of the EU countries, there were different systems in order to mitigate the impact. It involved the employer is, in some degree, was able to retain the expertise, the employees are able to remain in employment, against a reduced salary. Sweden had such a system since, as many commentators argue, was a factor in the German industry came up to speed more quickly over the post-crisis period.
in 2014, we were a team of short-term employment, but the requirements for it to apply to is hard. It must be a very deep recession” – not a temporary crisis. Therefore, the government sought to protect.
Anders Ferbe. Photo: Magnus Hallgren
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the Former chairman of the trade union IF Metall, Anders Ferbe, investigated the matter on behalf of the government, and came up with an interim report in August 2018, and a final report in February 2019.
A central part of the state, the employer and the employee jointly pay for a system of reduced working hours. Those who reduce working hours by 20 per cent, would receive a 12 per cent reduction in remuneration, the one that goes down in the period, with 60 per cent losing 20 per cent of their salary.
the other part was that you had to connect the short-time working schemes for the development of skills, in order that the companies would be stronger when the crisis has subsided. Ferbes part of the proposal was that the employer should be able to get 60 per cent of the central government in order to pay for the further education and training.
with the Aid of short-term employment can only be achieved if subjected to severe and temporary financial difficulties not able to be predicted, avoided or eliminated”. A reasonable interpretation is that Coronavirusets out he had been able to get it. The funding would be provided over a period of six months, with the possibility of extension for a period of three months of the year.
it’s Hard to say, though, that it seems to be deeply rooted in both the political and the social partners.
It was the prime minister, mr Stefan Löfven, who set up the inquiry, the minister for enterprise and energy, Ibrahim Baylan (S) said to the TT one year ago, that ”it is important that we have a competitive system in place.” The government’s agreement with the Centre party and the Liberal party of the year is ”Strengthen the state, support short-time working schemes.
However, there is as yet no bill in the case, much less a decision by the Swedish parliament.
to find out more: Coronavirus is increasing the demands on the system for shorter working hours.
