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Portrait of Annamaria Westregård. Photo.

Annamaria Westregård

Associate professor, Director of third cycle studies Department of Business Law

Portrait of Annamaria Westregård. Photo.

Social protection for workers outside the traditional employment contract – a Swedish example

Author

  • Annamaria Westregård

Editor

  • Mies Westerveld
  • Marius Olivier

Summary, in English

This chapter contains an outline of the Swedish social security system with a focus on sickness benefits in the social security and unemployment insurance. The Swedish legislator’s ambition has been to create parity between different forms of employment as well as between those who are self-employed and those who operate in different company structures. Legislative amendments in this area have mainly provided those self-employed with the same rights of pay level as well as basic access to relevant insurance policies, but there are still legislative problems. Swedish labour- and social security legislation still focus on permanently employed in large firms with regular working hours and incomes for whom the system is built. A particular challenge has now arisen in the new digitalised economy and its performing parties, crowdworkers.

Department/s

  • Lund University Centre for Business Law (Swedish abbr: ACLU)
  • Department of Business Law

Publishing year

2019-06-01

Language

English

Pages

202-219

Publication/Series

Social Security outside the realm of the Employment Contract : Informal Work and Employee-like Workers

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • Social security, precarious work, GIG-economy

Status

Published

Project

  • Egenföretagare från i huvudsakligen låglöneländer inom EU ersätter anställd personal i svenska företag. En rättsvetenskaplig studie om risk för snedvriden konkurrens och social dumping

Research group

  • Lund University Centre for Business Law (Swedish abbr: ACLU)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978 1 78811 339 7
  • ISBN: 978 1 78811 340 3