February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Sick_leave":
Science & Technology: 6 Feb 12
A young Swedish mother, recently diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, was told by the National Social Insurance Agency that she was not eligible for sickness benefits.
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Education: 26 Jan 12
A former pre-school employee in Borås in western Sweden is facing charges of molestation for a series of offences, including punishing young children by locking them in a drying cupboard and pulling their hair.
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National: 2 Dec 11
Prosecutors are demanding life for the 28-year-old who killed a female guard at Flemingsberg remand facility south of Stockholm. The accused has admitted to his crimes, but wants a fixed sentence.
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Society: 31 Oct 11
A 29-year-old disabled man in Sweden has been sentenced to pay damages to his personal caregivers after forcing them to perform sexual acts in order to secure permanent jobs and get their salaries paid out.
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Business & Money: 13 Oct 11
A Chinese chef who collapsed from exhaustion on the streets of Gothenburg after being forced to work under 'slave-like' conditions has received a large indemnity after a Swedish union intervened on his behalf.
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Politics: 26 Sep 11
The Sweden Democrats have a lost a Riksdag seat following a decision by William Petzäll to leave the party and sit as an independent as a result of his alcohol and prescription drug abuse.
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Politics: 3 Sep 11
One of the far-right Sweden Democrats' top politicians in Gothenburg has been charged with assaulting a bus driver.
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Politics: 1 Jul 11
The Swedish government suffered another setback in the Riksdag on Friday, when the Sweden Democrats voted with the centre-left opposition parties to force through its proposal by a single vote.
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Politics: 9 Jun 11
The government is expected to face a new defeat in the Riksdag on Thursday after the far-right Sweden Democrats said they will side with the centre-left opposition's proposed reforms to Sweden's public health insurance system.
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Science & Technology: 7 Feb 11
Delays in the completion of autopsies in criminal investigations in Gothenburg in western Sweden could result in murderers going free.
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Business & Money: 7 Feb 11
Swedish employers look for staff who are good-looking and not overweight, according to a new survey.
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Politics: 7 Feb 11
Sweden Democrat MP William Petzäll is taking a timeout from his political duties after police found him early Sunday morning stumbling drunk in the stairwell outside an apartment he shared with his ex-girlfriend.
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Society: 3 Feb 11
An increasing number of young Swedes are taking sick leave even when they are healthy, a new study has revealed.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Jan 11
Sweden's strong economy is in focus at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, giving the centre-right Alliance government a chance to spread a new image of Sweden, writes Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and three of his ministers.
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National: 29 Nov 10
Annica Holmquist, whose daughter highlighted her plight battling the Swedish Social Insurance Agency on her blog ahead of the Swedish general election in September, has regained her right to receive sickness benefits.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Oct 10
The uneasy alliance between Sweden's Social Democrats, Greens, and Left Party was doomed from the start, argues Social Democratic politician and communications consultant Niklas Nordström.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Oct 10
The Social Democrats' stinging defeat in Sweden’s September 19th election is part of a systemic shift in European society, write Moderate Party MP Johnny Munkhammar and Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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National: 24 Sep 10
Every third person who was forced out of the sickness benefit system during the first three months of 2010 has reapplied for benefits, according to a new report.
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Analysis & Opinion: 23 Sep 10
The 2010 Swedish general election has left Swedes facing a radically changed political landscape, writes The Local's James Savage.
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National: 21 Sep 10
Annica Holmquist, the 55-year-old whose battle with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency caused an election campaign stir after her plight was described on her daughter's blog, will lose her benefits, despite assurances of a "solution".
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National: 19 Sep 10
Sweden's government came under fire this week for its sick leave reforms after the Chlamydia Letter blogger (pictured) told the story of her 55-year-old mother who had her benefits withdrawn despite suffering from a rare disfigurement syndrome.
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Politics: 18 Sep 10
Sweden's welfare state overshadowed the possible entrance into parliament of the far-right Sweden Democrats in the final televised party leader debate before elections on Sunday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Sep 10
As Sweden's centre-right government hopes to win another four years in power, fears that conservative rule would cripple Sweden's welfare state may have been unfounded, the AFP's Nina Larson explains.
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Society: 1 Sep 10
The abolition of the Swedish state alcohol retail monopoly, Systembolaget, would lead to an increase in binge drinking, alcohol-related deaths and sick leave, according to a new study from Stockholm University.
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Analysis & Opinion: 19 Aug 10
Elections in Sweden tend to be decided over issues rather than candidates, but with the upcoming September 19th vote for the first time pitting two blocs against each other, personal politics are playing an unprecedented role, writes AFP's Rita Devlin Marier.
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Business & Money: 3 Aug 10
The number of Swedes on long-term sick benefits has stabilized after seven years of successive falls, according to official figures released on Tuesday.
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Society: 15 Jul 10
A waitress who works on a Baltic Sea ferry is suing her employers after they refused to give her sick pay while she was recovering from cosmetic breast surgery.
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Business & Money: 14 Jul 10
The government’s reforms to sick benefits have resulted in a large number of people moving into work or training programmes.
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Business & Money: 24 Jun 10
The government has failed to achieve its main goal of reducing the number of people who are inactive in the job market. New statistics show that their numbers have swelled by 6,500 in the last four years.
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Politics: 1 Jun 10
Sweden's small far-right Sweden Democrat party presented a shadow budget on Monday pledging lower taxes and higher benefits, to be financed by cutting international aid and refugee quotas.
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National: 14 May 10
The number of Swedes who have been denied sick benefits has risen sharply. Over 8,200 people this year have either been refused sick benefits or seen their compensation reduced.
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National: 6 May 10
A Swedish firm of funeral directors has agreed to pay 15,000 kronor to two sisters after their father's coffin was tipped without grace into a grave by pallbearers rendered unsteady by the drink.
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National: 29 Apr 10
A 41-year-old woman in Norrköping has been indicted on charges of forgery and fraud after borrowing about 450,000 kronor ($62,000) in her best friend's name, of which she spent 50,000 kronor on breast surgery in Thailand.
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Analysis & Opinion: 5 Mar 10
An excessively rigid labour market is at the root of Sweden's high youth unemployment and helps explain the recent proliferation of young people in early retirement schemes, argues Nima Sanandaji, CEO of the Captus think tank.
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Business & Money: 22 Feb 10
The Swedish Social Insurance Agency has reported a record year in its hunt for benefit cheats, reclaiming 930 million kronor ($130 million) in stolen and saved benefits.
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Society: 16 Feb 10
Sven Thidevall, the Swedish bishop at the heart of a period of ecclesiastical turbulence which left the diocese of Växjö in southern Sweden reeling, has resigned.
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National: 9 Feb 10
Each February, Swedish parents take an estimated 600,000 paid leave days to take care of sick children, according to new Social Insurance Agency statistics.
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Society: 5 Feb 10
Sven Thidevall, a Church of Sweden bishop in Växjö in southern Sweden, has been obliged to seek the solace of sick leave after an office quarrel ended in a bout of clerical fisticuffs.
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Society: 4 Feb 10
The established picture of the Swedes being the population with the highest incidence of sick leave in the world has been shaken. Sweden is now close to the European average.
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Politics: 20 Jan 10
Sweden's two political blocs each set out their stalls on Wednesday in the first parliamentary debate of 2010, with sickness benefits proving the main bone of contention.
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Business & Money: 14 Jan 10
Swedes spent less time on long-term sick leave and more returned to work as a result of new sick leave rules introduced in 2008, according to a new report.
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Politics: 14 Dec 09
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has admitted he is concerned by poll results showing the opposition in a commanding lead over the centre-right coalition government.
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Business & Money: 10 Dec 09
The Swedish parliament on Wednesday passed controversial new limits on sickness benefits designed to get more people back into the workforce.
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Politics: 7 Dec 09
Around 17,000 people set to lose their sickness benefits at the end of the year may be left with empty pockets as Sweden's unemployment insurance funds struggle to keep up with a backlog of cases during the transition.
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Science & Technology: 26 Nov 09
Swedish health officials said on Thursday that the spread of swine flu has tapered off somewhat in the last week.
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National: 20 Nov 09
Two sisters are claiming damages from a firm of funeral directors after their father's coffin was plunged ungracefully into a grave by undertakers unsteady on their feet.
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Science & Technology: 10 Nov 09
Doctors in south-western Sweden will soon be able to prescribe cultural activities such as choir lessons or ceramics classes as part of a taxpayer-funded initiative to help reduce prolonged absences from work due to illness.
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National: 10 Nov 09
A man in his sixties from central Sweden who was suffering from the swine flu has been found dead in his home, according to a statement from Örebro hospital.
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Politics: 31 Oct 09
In a bid to boost support from Sweden’s older generation, the Social Democrats promised to close the tax gap between pensioners and wage earners at their party conference on Friday.
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Society: 19 Sep 09
The cost to society of the swine flu pandemic can be reduced by 2.5 billion Swedish crowns if six out of ten Swedes are vaccinated against the disease.
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Society: 15 Sep 09
A Swedish woman who managed to convince her doctor she suffered from schizophrenia has been exposed as a benefits cheat after the same doctor ran into her years later at a department store.
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Business & Money: 4 Sep 09
The Swedish government has announced the allocation of 17 billion kronor ($2.36 billion) in the autumn budget for initiatives to prepare the long-term sick for the workplace.
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Business & Money: 20 Aug 09
454,000 Swedes were registered as unemployed during the second quarter of 2009, new figures from Statistics Sweden show.
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Dating: 27 Apr 09
Even in Sweden, a country with traditionally liberal views about sexuality, fetishism has long been considered a taboo subject. But as The Local’s Rami Abdelrahman discovered recently, it appears that fetishism is finding a mainstream foothold in Swedish society.
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National: 20 Apr 09
Fewer Swedes are claiming sick leave benefits than at any point since 1982, according to new figures from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
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National: 5 Mar 09
The Swedish Police Union is suing the state for hundreds of thousands of kronor after one of its members, a female bodyguard, was assigned to desk duty for screaming obscenities at an airport security guard.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Mar 09
Sweden's government needs to continue lowering taxes if the country is to get to grips with excessive public spending and an eroding work ethic, argues Nima Sanandaji.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 08
Doug Lansky takes a look at how Swedish tradition, technology, sick leave, vacations, public holidays and a new management style mean many 'full-time' Swedish workers get 130 days off per year.
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Education: 27 Oct 08
A pupil in eastern Sweden has been awarded 5,000 kronor ($600) in damages after a teacher attacked him with an industrial vacuum cleaner.
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Society: 24 Oct 08
Household consumption in Sweden rose by a record seven percent in 2007, reaching an all-time high, while the gap between rich and poor expanded to new levels, Statistics Sweden said on Thursday.
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Politics: 21 Sep 08
The Swedish government has promised to cut the cost of subscribing to unemployment insurance funds (A-kassa). Those on parental leave, sick or unemployed will also be allowed to join.
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Society: 8 Sep 08
More and more prostitutes in Sweden want to pay taxes in order to receive the social welfare benefits that come with doing so.
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Society: 2 Aug 08
The 60,000 Swedes currently on sick leave are to lose their benefits rights by the year 2010.
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Society: 17 Jul 08
Having attractive employees doesn’t necessarily add to a company’s bottom line, according to a new study from Karlstad University in central Sweden.
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National: 22 May 08
The Swedish Migration Board has called in the police to help investigate an alleged residence permit bribery scandal.
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Lifestyle: 29 Apr 08
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Business & Money: 29 Apr 08
High-tech gyms, free breakfasts, and programmes to help people lose weight or stop smoking: modern Swedish companies pamper their employees in a bid to combat one of Europe's highest absenteeism rates, writes AFP's Delphine Touitou.
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Business & Money: 15 Apr 08
Finance Minister Anders Borg presented Sweden's spring budget on Tuesday, which sharply reduced the 2008 growth forecast to 2.1 percent.
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Lifestyle: 6 Apr 08
The sale of Absolut vodka was the latest in a wave of liberal reforms by Sweden's centre-right government. But AFP's Pia Ohlin finds that, despite privatizations and new tax laws, Sweden is still very much a welfare state.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 Mar 08
Swedish feminists could well secure more support if they decided to embrace free markets rather than left wing ideologies, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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National: 17 Mar 08
Many doctors agree to sign sick notes for patients who wish to go on sick leave despite not always believing their claims to be justified.
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Politics: 26 Feb 08
Unionen chairwoman Mari-Ann Krantz has voiced her support for the Green Party's proposal for the creation of a state-run unemployment insurance system.
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Politics: 25 Feb 08
The Green Party wants to transform Sweden’s unemployment and social insurance into a single, state-run programme.
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Politics: 6 Feb 08
A sharp drop in the number of people claiming sick benefits has begun saving Sweden billions of kronor.
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National: 15 Jan 08
A schoolgirl in western Sweden has won an appeal against a teacher who successfully sued her for defamation in a sexual molestation case last year.
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Politics: 22 Dec 07
People on sick leave longer than one year can never receive more than 75 percent of their salary replaced, according to a new government proposal.
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Business & Money: 20 Dec 07
New government plans to clamp down on sick leave face criticism from the country's powerful trade unions.
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Society: 18 Oct 07
With unemployment continuing to drop, the Swedish labour force spent more hours at work than ever before in September.
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Science & Technology: 11 Oct 07
With women in Sweden twice as likely as men to take long term sick leave, a new study has examined the probable causes.
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Politics: 8 Oct 07
Sweden's prime minister and main opposition leader met in a televised debate on Sunday night, with jobs the main focus of discussion. A low-key debate did not prevent sharp disagreements.
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National: 5 Oct 07
Three men who kidnapped a 64-year-old in Gothenburg have been sentenced to eight years in jail by a court in Gothenburg. The pawnbroker found locked in the trunk of his own car suffering from life-threatening injuries
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Politics: 20 Sep 07
Benefit cuts, more money to bring down Sweden's CO2 emissions, and tax cuts aimed at the low paid. These were the highlights of Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg's second budget, which he presented on Thursday.
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Politics: 18 Sep 07
The Royal Family attended the Riksdag on Tuesday afternoon to mark the beginning of a new parliamentary session. Fredrik Reinfeldt delivered a Statement of Government Policy focusing largely on job creation.
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Society: 13 Sep 07
Social Security Minister Cristina Husmark Pehrsson is to unveil plans to clamp down on sick benefits, with the aim of getting people off sick pay and back into work. Many people will find their benefits cut.
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National: 20 Aug 07
The Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association has announced a lock-out of some 4,000 journalists just days after the launch of industrial action by Sweden's largest journalists' union.
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Society: 14 Aug 07
People with serious cases of burnout will still be given sick notes by doctors, officials have said, after new guidelines caused concern among many.
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Society: 14 Aug 07
New national guidelines for sick leave have come under heavy criticism from a top government psychiatrist.
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Society: 10 Aug 07
Being granted sick leave for symptoms of 'burn out' could soon become much harder in Sweden due to new national guidelines to come into effect in October.
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Politics: 8 Aug 07
Centre Party leader and Industry minister Maud Olofsson has called for limits to union rights. But government colleagues and opposition politicians have slammed the proposals.
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Society: 20 Jul 07
Fewer and fewer people are taking sick leave in Sweden. In the past year, the cost of sick benefits has fallen by 2.8 billion kronor. Still, over half a million people are on sick pensions.
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Politics: 29 Jun 07
The Swedish government has said it plans to introduce a mandatory unemployment insurance for all employees from July 2009, as almost a quarter of the labour force currently has no such cover.
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Society: 14 Jun 07
The university and cathedral city of Lund in Skåne is the best place in Sweden to live. The industrial community of Munkfors in Värmland is the worst, a new survey says.
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National: 11 Jun 07
A 15-year-old girl has been ordered to pay compensation to a teacher following false allegations of sexual harassment.
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Society: 11 Jun 07
The number of people under the age of 40 being granted state-funded early retirement has exploded since the turn of the century, according to new official figures.
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Analysis & Opinion: 14 May 07
Sweden's generous welfare system has long relied on the strong protestant work ethic of its citizens to stop abuse of state handouts. But the system itself has served to break down the protestant work ethic, argues Captus's Nima Sanandaji.
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Society: 23 Apr 07
A new study has found that Indians and Swedes are world champions at feigning illness to avoid work.
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Science & Technology: 29 Mar 07
A new Swedish study has shown the negative impact of smoking on productivity. The average number of sick days per person is 25, while the average smoker took a further eight days.
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Society: 24 Feb 07
Many Swedes remain on long term sick leave even when they are capable of returning to work because they are worried about becoming unemployed - where they will earn less than their sick pay.
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Society: 23 Jan 07
Depression is not just a burden for individual sufferers - it is also a weight borne by taxpayers and employers. And it is becoming ever more expensive.
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Society: 19 Jan 07
The average Swede took 40 days off sick from work last year, down from 41.3 days last year. Good news, says the man in charge of sick payments.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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