“I don’t think it’s worthy of a labor market minister to express himself like that,” says Teresa Carvalho, labor market policy spokesperson for the Social Democrats.
— I think he should dedicate himself to solving the matching problem in the Swedish labor market instead.
The reason for the criticism against Johan Pehrson in the last few days is a post on Twitter on Thursday:
“No SJ trains between Skåne and Gothenburg this summer. It’s really crazy. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed. Still, the trains don’t run because of a lack of drivers. With the government’s policy, it won’t be so fat to be unemployed. Subsidy reform. Education line. Work line. Period “.
— I think it is astonishingly irresponsible that he blames canceled trains on the fact that the unemployed are too fat, when we know that it is an acute skills shortage and that we have a government that is actually cutting the number of training places, says Carvalho.
She has also asked a so-called written question to Pehrson in the Riksdag, which is a way for members of the Riksdag to get answers from ministers.
— I want to know what he means – what is a reasonable compensation level for an unemployed person? says Carvalho.
She cannot interpret Pehrson’s post in any other way than that he believes that the unemployed today are financially well off, she says.