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On Friday, the latest negotiations between the Confederation of Swedish Business (SN), PTK and LO broke down for the second time in a short time. SN and PTK said yes to the agreement, while LO said no.
Since then, the big question is how the government should proceed. The latest controversial investigation is under consultation and if there is no agreement between the social partners, the investigation proposal will become law, according to the January agreement between S, MP, C and L.
The question is whether politicians, despite LO’s resignation, can go ahead with the SN-PTK deal. Both want information from the parliamentary parties in this regard. But Stefan Löfven has no answer today:
– We’ll take it easy. We have a process underway with the investigation, the consultation work will end on October 26, then it will be compiled and evaluated, he says.
“Need time”
Labor Minister Eva Nordmark (S) has already met with employers and will meet with LO and PTK separately later this week.
– Express that they need time to analyze the situation that has arisen. “What is content for me is that we have to give the parties their time and also, the work with the investigation is ongoing,” he tells TT.
She emphasizes that SN and PTK have an agreement that included a third party and was written based on that. But the third, LO, withdrew.
– They need time to specify their proposal now that LO is not involved, says Eva Nordmark.
He notes that both SN and PTK say their agreement should be the basis for modernized labor legislation. But while the bosses say that the government must at the same time continue to prepare legislation based on the investigation, PTK makes it clear that it cannot be the basis for anything.
When the Prime Minister was asked if he could consider going ahead with a proposal that only two out of three parties are behind, he did not deliver a clear message.
– We work from outside to achieve the broadest possible solution, he says.
Stefan Löfven: I can’t say any date.
Löfven also cannot give an answer on when the government can deliver a message.
– I can’t say any date, but October 26 is the end of the consultation period. But then 57 consultation bodies, or even more, have submitted responses, so it should be read and analyzed as well, he says.
The threat of mistrust from the Left Party looms over the Prime Minister, but Löfven recalls that Jonas Sjöstedt in his explanation of vote when he released Löfven as Prime Minister, said that it would arouse mistrust if the government put a bill on the table of the Riksdag that undermines workers’ rights.
– And we are far from putting something on the table of the Riksdag, says Löfven.
Jonas Sjöstedt wants to see the message “in the near future”
But the government must, according to Sjöstedt, give notice “in the near future” of how it intends to proceed. First, however, you should have time to review the references, which will probably take at least a few weeks.
– I’m not sure that the government even knows how to proceed on this matter, says Sjöstedt.
– We want to hear that we must not run over any of the parties and impose legislation that they do not want, but rather give them time to find a solution and not be threatened.
Watch the last week with Viktor.
