Sweden - Reform of employment law accepted - June 30, 2022

The Parliament voted to implement significant changes to employment law. The new rules will enter into force on 30 June 2022. The minister for Employment and Gender Equality, has described this as the “greatest reform of Swedish employment law in modern times”. Many of the changes will be implemented in the Employment Protection Act (Sw. Lagen om anstall-ningsskydd). The goal is to make the Act more flexible yet more predictable for both employers and employees. These new amendments have been negotiated and agreed upon in principle by the employer federations and the trade unions and subsequently fine-tuned as part of the legislative process.

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