A New Form of Employment for Newly Arrived Migrant and Long-term Unemployed

Abstract

November 2017, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) along with Unionen, Sweden’s largest white-collar trade union on the private labour market, reached an agreement in principle on the introduction of a new form of employment to promote labour market participation for newly arrived migrants and long-term unemployed, called establishing-employment (etableringsanstallning). A precondition for the agreement to be binding was that the State would ...