“Sweden has a labor market model that has served the country well: wages and conditions are negotiated between the labor market parties and not by the state. The government’s wage floor challenges this model,” she writes.
Johansson claims, contrary to the government, that the wage requirement will lead to higher unemployment.
“Instead, the tightening of labor immigration will lead to many businesses functioning worse, unable to expand and having to turn down assignments”.
Nor will it have any major impact on cheating on the labor market or social exclusion, she believes.
The new support requirement comes into force on November 1 and means that a labor immigrant must have a salary that amounts to at least 80 percent of the median salary in Sweden, currently SEK 27,360.