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- Bursting at the seams
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- In the last quarter of 2010 Sweden's major staffing agencies increased their turnover by 42 percent. They traded for 17.2bn Kronor (€1.9bn) in 2010 and at the end of the year some 30,000 people were hired through staffing agencies.
The employer and trade federation Swedish Staffing Agencies has 420 members.
Source: The Swedish Staffing Agencies and the report 'Sweden's hired personnel'.
- 30 day cap for temporary workers
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The latest collective bargaining process resulted in an agreement on hired staff between IF Metall, the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries and Industriarbetsgivarna - an umbrella employers' organisation covering major Swedish industry employers.
It put a 30 day cap on the period it is possible to engage staffing agencies when there are emergency vacancies. After this time redundant workers' reinstatement rights kick in. After a further six months the company may hire new staff again. IF Metall already has an agreement with Swedish Staffing Agencies which says the hired worker will be compensated in line with the average pay at the workplace he or she comes to.
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