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SD’s economic and political spokesperson Oscar Sjöstedt. Archive image.
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Frustrated unions and employers may have to wait for the establishment jobs to come into place. Even though it had already been a year.
SD, which dislikes establishment jobs, says that the issue is being negotiated with the government.
The government talks about “takeovers”.
Establishment jobs are a new measure to help new arrivals and the long-term unemployed enter the labor market. Unions and employers agree on an agreement and the only thing missing is for the government to change a regulation.
But this has dragged on and the social partners do not understand why.
Negotiating with SD
According to the Sweden Democrats’ economic policy spokesperson Oscar Sjöstedt, the establishment jobs are being negotiated between the Tidö parties.
“It’s no secret that we are critical of all forms of failed labor market measures,” he says in a written comment about the establishment jobs to TT.
“However, this is a matter of negotiations with the governing parties, and what we ultimately end up with is far too early to say.”
According to Sjöstedt, all Tidö parties agree that the labor market policy measures should be simplified and replaced with fewer, cost-effective initiatives that lead to jobs.
SD’s criticism is partly about “the large cost for almost non-existent benefit”, and partly that it is believed that the measures risk leading to displacement effects for Swedish wage earners.
Pehrson makes a comeback
However, Labor Market Minister Johan Pehrson (L) claims that the agreement the parties signed with each other regarding the establishment jobs in December goes against the current regulations. This forces the government to do a “re-examination”.
In a written response to TT, he elaborates:
“It is about various technical and legal issues that need to be analyzed more closely. Not least deviations from the rules on state aid and the notification the government made to the European Commission. Right now we are having a dialogue with the parties about how these issues should be resolved.”
At LO, the Union and Swedish Business, however, they are questioning what the problem is. The government has not managed to explain it, they believe.
Sharp this autumn
Labor market policy is not actually covered by the Tidö agreement between SD and the government parties M, KD and L, but if the policy has consequences for the budget, it ends up on the negotiating table.
There is already money set aside for 2023-2025 in the budget, but there are question marks about how far the money will go, depending on how popular the establishment jobs become.
Whether more money needs to be pushed is a question in the negotiations before the autumn budget.
The establishment jobs began to be discussed already in the wake of the refugee crisis in 2015. Unions and employers agreed in 2017, the Riksdag has made a decision, the European Commission has approved the measure and unions and employers agreed on a more detailed agreement last December.
FACTS
That’s how it works
Establishment jobs last two years and can be compared to a kind of trial employment. As a general rule, the job must lead to a permanent, full-time employment where the establishment employee worked.
Roughly calculated, the employer and the state share the wage cost, which will be at the minimum level of the respective collective agreement.
In order for an individual to be considered for an establishment job, one must have been long-term unemployed for at least 24 months and/or be a new arrival and have been in Sweden for up to three years.
The agreement is valid from 1 January 2023.
Before the agreement becomes final, the government must amend the regulation adopted last year, based on the changes made by the parties in the final agreement.
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