Under threat of sanctions by the European Commission for breaches of the Directive on temporary employment contracts that imposes a minimum level framework over continuous use of temporary employment contracts, the Swedish government spent the summer consulting with various union organizations, and then on 23 October it presented a draft law due for implementation on 01 May 2016.
The current regulation and its disadvantages. Currently, Sweden’s LAS (law on job security/ laganställningsskyddet) intends for four possible cases of temporary employment contract including the ‘general’ temporary employment contract, a contract that replaces a full time employee, a seasonal employment contract, and an employment contract for workers aged 67 and over. The only temporary employment contracts that can be converted into permanent full time contracts are the ‘general’ contracts an
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