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Eva Nordmark's task: to liberalise Sweden’s employment act and reform the employment service

When former TCO President Eva Nordmark accepted to replace Ylva Johansson as Sweden’s Minister for Employment, she also accepted to follow up on proposals she had been critical of in the past, like the liberalisation of the employment act.
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  • Name: Eva Nordmark
  • Age: 48
  • Grew up in Luleå. Lives in Nacka with her husband. Has two children aged 21 and 23.
  • Studied political science at the Luleå University of Technology LTU. 

Active at an early age in the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League SSU. A Social Democrat MP from 2004. Became chair of SKTF, now Vision, in 2004, and President of the Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees, TCO, in 2011. Appointed Minister for Labour in September 2019.

Awarded the French “Ordre National de Mérite” in 2018 for her work for women’s rights, social dialogue in Sweden and Europe and her engagement for higher education.

She has also sat on a number of boards, including the European Trade Union Confederation and the Luleå University of Technology. She also headed former Prime Minister Reinfeldt’s Commission on the Future.

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