The Law of Labour Relations in Sweden

Schmidt, Folke

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“…The settlement procedure encompassed three levels, ending with a conciliation court. Unlike dispute settlement systems in several other countries (for instance, in Sweden: Gustafsson, 1965;Schmidt, 1962), its recommendations were mandatory. The agreement did not regu late substantive employment conditions (unlike central agreements in Sweden: see Leimgruber, 2008); negotiations about these topics were to take place at the local firm level.…”

Section: The Peace Agreement a Distinctive Swiss Labour Market Institutionmentioning

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Self-interest, Legal Commitment and Benevolence: The Emergence and Enforcement of a Swiss Labour Market Institution

Broussolle

2009

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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The long-established ‘basic agreements’ in the Nordic countries are well known; less familiar is the analogous institution in the Swiss labour market, first established in 1937 in the metalworking industry. This article contributes to the understanding of such agreements though an analysis of the peace clauses that are central to collective bargaining in Switzerland. It describes the emergence of the 1937 agreement, with an emphasis on the actors’ strategies and the external economic pressure that provoked the move towards cooperation, and explains the persistence of cooperative institutions, emphasizing the role of mutual interests, of a mandatory cooperative framework and of benevolence. Since the benefits of the agreement have come to represent a public good, the conclusion examines the emergence of a free-rider problem.

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Section: The Peace Agreement a Distinctive Swiss Labour Market Institutionmentioning

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Self-interest, Legal Commitment and Benevolence: The Emergence and Enforcement of a Swiss Labour Market Institution

Broussolle

2009

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…Only in the 1970s did the situation begin to change in Sweden with the introduction of statutory regulations. However, the impetus for reform did not come from their union leaderships as sometimes contended in the literature (see, for example, Emmenegger, 2014;Korpi, 1982;Lindbeck, 1997;Schmidt, 1977). As will be shown, it was the government who spearheaded the push for statutory rules, albeit in the face of considerable resistance from both sides of industry.…”

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The development of Swedish employment protection legislation

Ferdosi

2020

Labor History

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This article explores how and why employment protection legislation developed in Sweden in the ways that it did from its early beginnings to the present period. It hopes to offer answers to questions about the initial impetus for statutory regulation, the number and quality of significant employment protection measures adopted and the positions of stakeholders with interests in the reform decision making process. It does this by drawing on a variety of both primary and secondary source materials such as employment protection databases, translated parliamentary records and research publications. At the same time, it assesses the explanatory merit of proposed hypotheses in the literature by testing them against the available empirical evidence. Several interesting findings emerged from this study.

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Sweden: Conflict, Power and Politics in Industrial Relations

Korpi¹

1981

Industrial Relations in International Perspective

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The Law of Labour Relations in Sweden

Cited by 7 publications

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Self-interest, Legal Commitment and Benevolence: The Emergence and Enforcement of a Swiss Labour Market Institution

Self-interest, Legal Commitment and Benevolence: The Emergence and Enforcement of a Swiss Labour Market Institution

The development of Swedish employment protection legislation

Sweden: Conflict, Power and Politics in Industrial Relations

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