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37 Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y J. 143 (2015-2016)
The Fissured Workplace: Some Responses to Contemporary Challenges in Sweden

handle is hein.journals/cllpj37 and id is 155 raw text is: THE FISSURED WORKPLACE: SOME RESPONSES TO CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN SWEDEN Petra Herzfeld Olssont and Erik Sjdint I. INTRODUCTION The Swedish labor force consists of approximately five million people.' It is evident that there has been a shift in the organization of businesses and the composition of the workforce during recent decades. There are a number of lorry drivers on the Swedish highways who are self- employed, with their businesses registered outside Sweden.2 Sweden has one of the highest numbers of McDonald's restaurants per capita in Europe, restaurants that are operated through a franchise system. Large public employers like municipalities and local regions have outsourced major parts of the public-financed welfare, like schools, nursing centers, and hospitals as well as other services like cleaning, to private actors and the public bodies nowadays buy parts of these services. The Swedish ban on agency work was lifted in the 1990s and today the number of temporary agency workers is about 70,000 employees, and in some sectors their presence is quite visible.4 The use of subcontracting has steadily increased since the early 1970s. Many workplaces are populated by workers employed by t Associate Professor in Private Law and Senior Lecturer in International Labor Law at the Faulty of Law, Uppsala University. tt Guest Lecturer at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. Both are affiliated with Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS). 1. Information regarding the composition of the Swedish labor market is published in the Labour Force Survey (LFS), see http://www.scb.se/en_/Finding-statistics/Statistics-by-subject-area/Labour- marketlLabour-force-surveys/LabourLabor-Force-Survey-LFS/. 2. See, e.g., Labor Court Judgment 2013 no. 32 (Swed.). 3. See, e.g., Ingegerd Berggren & Marie Glanzelius, Privatiseringar 6kar inom komaunala sektorn http://www.scb.se/Statistik/AM/AM9903/-dokument/Privatiseringar-okar-inom-kommunaa- sektom-En-sammanstallning-av-statistik.pdf (last visited Sept. 30, 2015) (Swed.) 4. SOU 2014: 55 Betdnkandet Inhyrning och fdretradesratt till AteranstAllning, pp. 58ff, 153ff. Problems are reported from the hospitals depending on nurses from temporary work agencies, Article from Dagens Nyheter, Det beh6vs en statlig haveri-kommissionfdr att utreda sjuksk6terskornas villkor, http://www.dn.se/debatt/det-behovs-en-statlig-haverikommission-for-att-utreda-sjukskoterskormas-villkor/ (Apr. 20, 2015) (Swed.). The role of temporary work agencies for industrial work is also debated. See, e.g., Fortfarande kul efier 35 hr i skogen, DAGENS ARBETE, http://da.se/2015/05/if-metall-utmanar-den- svenska-bemanningsmodellen/ (Sept. 30, 215) (Swed.). 5. SVERGE RADIO, http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&artikel=5128962; Riksdagsmotion 2011/12:A370 (Apr. 10, 2011) (Swed.); Jobben sdijs ut av byggfitarna, BYGGNADS

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