LO Sweden and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise Reached an Agreement Concerning Foreign Companies

By LO

LO Sweden and the employers' organisation the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise have come to an agreement concerning a joint recommendation regulating how foreign companies bringing their own labour to Sweden should be treated in Sweden.

At a press conference on August 30, 2005, Jan-Peter Duker, Deputy Managing Director of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and Erland Olauson, the Negotiating Secretary and First Vice President of LO Sweden, presented the results of the negotiations between The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and LO Sweden that have been conducted since February 7 with the aim of achieving a recommendation.

This is a recommendation implying that affiliates of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) shall reach an agreement on what parts of the sectoral agreements on national level should apply to the foreign companies performing work in Sweden, says Erland Olauson, LO Sweden's Negotiating Secretary and First Vice President.