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Negotiations on new and, as some would call it, more modern rules in the labor market have been “extremely difficult,” PTK chief negotiator Martin Wästfelt tells DN.
– We couldn’t get to the end. We have fought very hard and have done everything possible to reach an agreement, he says.
– But sometimes it doesn’t work. This is not an individual problem that he fell into, but it is a general assessment that we were too far apart.
So, was it not a question of the demand for a change of “factual basis” for the dismissal in which he fell?
– I do not want to comment on that, answer.
The issue of employment protection has been said to be a major obstacle in the negotiations. Here, employers wanted more flexible rules for both hiring and firing people. Then the issue of a broader definition of just factual grounds was addressed, as well as more exceptions to the priority rules in the event of dismissal.
But for several LO unions, led by Kommunal, the factual basis for the dismissal has been sacred and non-negotiable.
Mattias Dahl, Swedish manager of business negotiations, also refrains from pointing to an individual problem as the cause of the accident.
– It is all that falls, he tells TT.
In a press release Dahl says that nevertheless the negotiations have been constructive, but that in the end it was not possible to reach an agreement that everyone could accept.
– Now it will be the legislator who will have to assume the responsibility of improving the regulations in the labor market so that it is easier both to hire and to get work, he continues.
Negotiations between the parties have been conducted in light of the fact that, otherwise, changes in the labor law will occur through the law. It is part of the January agreement between the government and the parties of the Partido Centro y Librales coalition.
And if there is something that the parties have really agreed on, it is that they do not want to see legislation.
– It is important that politicians think that we basically have a model that works well in the Swedish labor market. We hope politicians think about this, keep a cool head and act cautiously, says Martin Wästfelt.
LO also says that despite a “constructive negotiation”, the parties have not gone all the way.
– Our most important goal with the negotiation was to increase the safety of our members. It’s mostly about limiting precarious employment, which has spread like a plague, and increasing opportunities for adjustment, LO President Susanna Gideonsson says in a press release.
It also emphasizes that the issues that have been on the negotiating table must be decided by the parties and not by politicians. However, the so-called latest investigation, which has served as the basis for the threat of legislation, laid the groundwork for the parties’ negotiations, according to Gideonsson.
– Ultimately, it is the Center Party and the Liberals who crashed this negotiation by promoting the latest investigation. Now we will make sure to stop the investigation proposal. Our members need more, not less security, says Susanna Gideonsson.
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