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Is it easier to fire him for personal reasons? The pressure on LO is increasing in the negotiations on job security. Employers are trying to drive a wedge in a fragmented labor movement as time runs out.
Many see red in the castle of LO. Stock Photography.
Fact reasons for dismissal. This is the question that everything seems to be on right now, even though LO may have cleaned up that part, according to the sources TT spoke to.
LO agreed at the meeting of the Supervisory Council (the highest decision-making body between congresses) in August that it is not absolutely relevant to abandon the demands of employers, to facilitate the dismissal of employees for personal reasons.
But there are unions within the LO family, including heavyweight IF Metall and Handels, who may consider bargaining: the question of factual basis is not sacred, according to these unions. The same applies to white collar unions, as long as they pay you with other upgrades.
There is currently a lot of running in the corridors of LO in parallel with negotiations with employers at the office of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprises in Östermalm, Stockholm. The LO board has had several meetings in the last two days. Nobody wants to speak officially, but “it all comes down to the decision of the supervisory board,” as one source puts it, and how difficult it is to touch the decision on the “factual basis” and the interpretation of it.
In the absence of one day until the deadline, September 30, the negotiations are in a very delicate situation. Absolutely no one wants to speak officially. But there is really no absolute deadline, it is something that the parties themselves have agreed to before, so if there is a prospect of finding a solution, the negotiations can continue for a few more days, based on what both parties tell TT.
What is pressing time are partly politicians, primarily the Centern government coalition parties and liberals, who want to increase the pressure before threatening to advance legislation, and partly the previously slow wage movement that formally begins on 1 October.
The employers’ side does not want the last questions to be up in the air when angry LO unions may go on strike in a month in connection with the expiration of wage agreements.
This is the bottom
Over the years, LO, PTK and the Swedish Business Confederation have tried on several occasions, but have failed, to achieve a kind of new Saltsjöbad agreement (from 1938) that regulates the rules of the game in the labor market.
Negotiations resumed last year, this time under pressure from politicians. In January 2019, the Center Party and the Liberals liberated the Löfven government with a promise to change the labor law (part of the so-called January agreement). An investigation was convened with new draft labor laws, regulations that, among other things, deal with the priority rules in case of dismissal and that will be applied if the unions and the employers themselves do not solve the problems through negotiation.
According to the January agreement, the new rules of the latter will apply from January 2022.
