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Sweden: most casual jobs and lowest work protection

Sweden has the highest unemployment levels among the Nordics, and also more casual jobs and lower employment protection levels for those on temporary contracts. An award-winning dissertation shows the consequences deregulation has had for people without permanent employment.
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Johan Alfonsson
is a doctor of sociology at the University of Gothenburg. Since 2021, he has been part of a research programme financed by Forte; "Low-paid jobs in the Swedish labour market 2005 – 2020. What are the jobs, where are they and how have they developed?" The project looks at the growth of low-paid jobs in Sweden, who risks ending up doing them and why they have emerged.
Reform of the Swedish employment act

Sweden’s Ministry of Employment has been working with changes to the Labour Protection Act (LAS). The conclusions and proposals have been presented in a new publication (in Swedish only) and parliament will vote on it later this year. 

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