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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.

Precarity of new forms of employment under Swedish labour law

Author

  • Annamaria Westregård

Editor

  • Jeff Kenner
  • Izabela Florczak
  • Marta Otto

Summary, in English

The precarious employment types growing most rapidly in Sweden are on-call with zero hour contracts, umbrella organizations and crowdwork in the gig economy. In the Swedish binary system, those in precarious work often fall between the regulations for employees and those for the self-employed. Both the legislator and the social partners in Sweden work with these problems in the field of employee protection and social security to improve the conditions for precarious workers. The aim of the chapter is to analyse the consequences of the legal system for precarious workers. The focus is on working protection for self-employed and short fixed term employees in the labour legislation and collective agreements and the impact of the Swedish attempt to improve conditions for precarious workers within the Swedish model, where the collective agreement is the most important regulatory instrument of wages and working conditions.

Department/s

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

Publishing year

2019-08-01

Language

English

Pages

99-113

Publication/Series

Precarious Work. The Challenge for Labour Law in Europe

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • Precarius 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: 9781788973267
  • ISBN: 9781788973250