Foreign Work Receives Equal Pay for Equal Work

The EU Council of Ministers has finally adopted a new directive on posting. Now it will be applied in Swedish law
– We will treat shift work exactly like domestic work in terms of wages and other remunerations, said Ylva Johansson (S), Minister of Labor, when 39, a press conference Thursday

. seconded workers only the right to claim the minimum wage. According to Ylva Johansson, it is very unusual for you to work at the minimum wage, for example a building. On the contrary, the lowest wages are significantly higher.

– It's an incredibly big success. We will now study how Swedish legislation should be designed to require konkret Byggnads to require a collective agreement with the same wage conditions as Swedish workers.

Most of the detached work force comes only in Sweden, the opposite is quite rare. But if a Swede works on a foreign vessel, there is the salary there.

– We are short of manpower in the construction and construction sector, so we need a lot of shift work.

The European Parliament discussed and debated the issue of the Posting Directive for several years, and the issue was heavily contaminated. Even between Swedish parties.

– The bourgeois parties opposed it. This is incomprehensible, why do you want to facilitate wage dumping? But we worked very actively and brought with us many countries. It has become a large majority, although not all countries have been involved.

Poland and Hungary opposed the proposal and several Eastern European countries have already expressed concern that a new directive on the posting of model currently underway reduce their competitive opportunities.

– We have a lot of Poland in the Swedish building. Now they are entitled to the same salary as Swedish workers and it is a great success for Polish construction workers.

The government appointed Marie Granlund to special investigators to enforce the new legislation in Swedish law.