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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
