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Stefan Löfven European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker at the Extraordinary EU Summit on the Social Pillar 2017.
This is an opinion piece from the editorial team. Sydsvenskan’s attitude is independently liberal.
Legal minimum wages in the EU can end at levels of 60 percent of the median wage or 50 percent of the median wage. Countries where 70 percent of workers are covered by collective agreements are proposed to be exempt. In that case, Sweden will not be affected by any mandatory legislation this time.
This has not prevented the Swedish Labor Minister from expressing some caution:
“We really have to look at this carefully,” Nordmark told Ekot.
When the prime minister in November 2017 invited a summit in Gothenburg around the so-called social pillars of the EU, both employers, trade unions and the opposition warned that Stefan Löfven was at risk of opening up to EU law, which in turn threatens the Swedish model in which wages are determined by the social partners. and working conditions.
Trade unionist Löfven is a bit unlucky with labor market problems. If it is not the requirement of the January agreement for the reform of the, then it is a binding legislation on the minimum wages of Brussels.
Wages and working conditions are appalling in some parts of the EU and definitely need to be reformed. But doing it through the social pillar is questionable. Sweden is now forced every time similar proposals come up to negotiate exceptions and voluntariness to salvage our well-functioning model.
It is definitely not a joke. But it is a desperate long-term strategy.
