Mar 8, 2015
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Trade unions have expressed concerns about a rising number of employers requiring potential hires to perform an unpaid job trial before offering a formal employment contract. Job trials are only common in companies without collective bargaining agreements.
Trade unions have expressed concerns about a rising number of employers requiring potential hires to perform an unpaid job trial before offering a formal employment contract. In a newspaper article, Leif Håkansson of Swedish labour union IF Metall said that workers will do almost anything to attain a job in times of high unemployment, and that employers are preying on them by offering exploitative job trials. Job trials are only common in companies without collective bargaining agreements, which set out the minimum wage per sector or firm.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/Sweden ...
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