Sweden: social partners disagree on the extension of the framework agreement on crisis agreements in metalworking

h 31, 2010, Swedish employers want to extend the framework agreement (ramavtal) which allows local crisis agreements (krisavtal) cutting wages and working time in ailing businesses, judging that some still need it. Unions remind that this system must remain an exception. (Ref. 091068)

Signed at the high-point of the economic crisis, the framework agreement which allows signing crisis agreements in metalworking (see our dispatch No. 090240) is at the center of a debate between IF Metall, the met