Sweden : full-time for all after 3 years of part-time work

The Swedish social-democrat government, after negociations with its jaority in Parliament (the Greens and the Left), just decided to launch on the parliamentary procedure on july 1st a bill that give to all the salaried workers the right to a full-time job in the company after 3 years of part-time work. (Ref. 06616)
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The proposition should be faced with the opposition of the unions’ nation confederations, for lack of conventional negociation, of the opposition’s centre-right parties’ and the employers’. The Greens are not enthusiastc because they would like to exempt the small companies from this obligation, but have not given their final position yet. The far Left (The Left) and the public sector’s unions that count a lot of women working part-time among their members, especially in the town sector, bound

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