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.
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