https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed New figures released by Sweden’s National Mediation Institute (Medlingsinstitutet) on Wednesday showed that salaries increased at a faster rate last year than they did the year before. https://www.thelocal.se/20190130/this-is-how-much-swedish-salaries-increased-in-2018 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 12:29:54 +0100 this-is-how-much-swedish-salaries-increased-in-2018 The labour market in Sweden is under more pressure than in any other country included in a new global report. And the situation is deteriorating each year. https://www.thelocal.se/20171117/swedish-labour-market-tougher-than-ever Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:12:14 +0100 swedish-labour-market-tougher-than-ever The Transport Union has ended the nationwide haulage strike set to paralyze Swedish trade, after truck drivers reached an agreement with employers following fractious wrangling about how they use temping agency staff. https://www.thelocal.se/20130424/47530 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:05:00 +0200 47530 Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfelt has rejected the Liberal Party's proposal to lower young people's pay in the wake of rising youth unemployment in Sweden, and has urged politicians around the nation to follow suit. https://www.thelocal.se/20120404/40076 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:11:00 +0200 40076 Nurses at the University Hospital in Linköping, in central Sweden, made to work over the Christmas weekend, were disgruntled to find out that they were given 440 kronor ($64) extra for the trouble, while the doctor on call received an extra 30,000. https://www.thelocal.se/20120111/38436 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:33:00 +0100 38436 Saab employees’ wages may be delayed, marking the third consecutive month that at least part of the company's 3,700 employees has seen their salary payments delayed. https://www.thelocal.se/20110823/35720 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:01:00 +0200 35720 The future of disaster-riddled carmaker Saab doesn’t look bright, according to several analysts, who say that holding back salaries is a company’s very last way out. https://www.thelocal.se/20110623/34534 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:02:00 +0200 34534 Cash-strapped carmaker Saab won't be able to pay this months wages to its 3,800 employees, according to a statement from the company. https://www.thelocal.se/20110623/34526 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:36:00 +0200 34526 The government should work to cut wages in low paid jobs so that more new Swedes can get into the labour market, according to Swedish free market think tank Timbro. https://www.thelocal.se/20110530/34066 Mon, 30 May 2011 12:48:00 +0200 34066 When salesman Rickard Dunker opened his payslip he got something of a shock. For one month's work he had been paid a total of three kronor. After tax had been deducted, his monthly income was reduced to a grand total of two kronor. https://www.thelocal.se/20110226/32278 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:06:00 +0100 32278 The CEOs of Sweden's 50 largest companies earn on average 40 times more than an industrial worker, a finding that a union organisation head believes is "totally unacceptable" and requires a "popular uprising" to remedy. https://www.thelocal.se/20110207/31884 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:05:00 +0100 31884 Four out of five Swedish bosses say their companies’ bonus systems are faulty. Many complain that bonuses reward short-term gains rather than their firms’ long-term interests, according to a new survey. https://www.thelocal.se/20100712/27738 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:06:00 +0200 27738 The gap between the rich and poor in Sweden has grown considerably in recent years, according to a new report from the country's largest labour group. https://www.thelocal.se/20091208/23714 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:00:00 +0100 23714 Monthly salaries in Sweden averaged 25,800 kronor ($3920) last year, an increase of 800 kronor compared with the previous year. https://www.thelocal.se/20080904/14132 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:21:00 +0200 14132 Unions are planning to claim damages from three hamburger chains after reports that they used workers on slave-like contracts. At the same time, police have opened a criminal investigation into a cleaning company with contracts to clean a number of fast food restaurants around Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20071026/8916 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:34:00 +0200 8916 Sweden's top bosses saw their pay packets swell by 13 percent last year, according to a new survey by Svenska Dagbladet. https://www.thelocal.se/20070607/7524 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:46:00 +0200 7524 The wage gap between men and women in Sweden is getting smaller, according to new statistics. Women's wages rose faster than men's in all sectors apart from local government, the figures from Statistics Sweden show. https://www.thelocal.se/20070522/7378 Tue, 22 May 2007 16:41:00 +0200 7378 Sweden's trade union confederation, LO, has called for a monthly wage increase of 825 kronor per employee next year. https://www.thelocal.se/20061106/5419 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:23:00 +0100 5419 Wages for white collar workers have increased at a much greater rate than those of blue collar workers over the last ten years, according to a report presented today by the trade union organisation LO. https://www.thelocal.se/20061004/5111 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:44:00 +0200 5111 Salary increases for those in the private sector went up 2.8 percent for blue-collar workers and 3.2 percent for white-collar workers between June 2005 and June 2006, according to Statistics Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20060905/4791 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:55:00 +0200 4791