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Portrait Anders Kjellberg november 2022. Photo: Emma Lord.

Anders Kjellberg

Professor Emeritus

Portrait Anders Kjellberg november 2022. Photo: Emma Lord.

Collective bargaining and minimum wage regime in Sweden

Author

  • Anna Fransson
  • Anders Kjellberg

Editor

  • Torsten Müller

Summary, in English

The 2022 EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages aims to ensure adequate minimum wages and strengthen collective bargaining in order to reduce in-work poverty and wage inequality. The national transposition and implementation of the Minimum Wage Directive will be heavily shaped by the existing collective bargaining and minimum wage regimes in the 27 EU Member States. To monitor and understand the potential impact of the Directive across the EU, the ETUI assembled a group of distinguished national experts to prepare brief overviews for each country covering three key aspects: 1) the minimum wage system; 2) the collective bargaining regime; and 3) the transposition of the Directive into national law.
Contents of the Swedish profile:
1. Minimum wage regime in Sweden
2. Collective bargaining regime in Sweden
* The right and obligation to negotiate
* Trade union's right to information
* Coverage of collective agreements
* Trade union access to workplaces
* Requirements on public procurements
3. Transposition of the European Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages in the EU

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2025-07-17

Language

English

Pages

118-122

Publication/Series

Minimum wage regimes and collective bargaining in the EU : Country profiles and transposition of the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive

Document type

Report chapter

Publisher

ETUI (European Trade Union Institute), Bruxelles

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)

Keywords

  • trade unions
  • minimum wages
  • minimum wage regime
  • collective bargaining
  • EU
  • EU directive on minimum wages
  • collective bargaining regime
  • industrial relations
  • Public procurement
  • Swedish model
  • collective bargaining coverage
  • median wage
  • minimilön
  • lägstalön
  • lönegolv
  • industrial action
  • Swedish National Mediation Office
  • Codetermination Act
  • Employment Protection Act
  • Act on Trade Unions Representatives' Status at the Workplace
  • blue-collar workers
  • white-collar workers
  • Public Procurement Act
  • Sweden
  • labour law

Status

Published

Project

  • Den svenska modellen: fack, arbetsgivare och kollektivavtal