The Perspectives of Legal Regulations and Employee Voice: Insights from Sweden

Laura Carlson ()
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Laura Carlson: Stockholm University

Chapter 6 in Employee Voice in the Global North, 2023, pp 111-139 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the legal regulations and the balance of collective and individual employee voice within the Swedish labour law model. Employee voice is exercised almost exclusively through the labour unions in Sweden. Employees receive information, are consulted, and are part of codetermination/joint decision-making only through the unions and employee participation in unions. The Swedish labour unions are tenacious in retaining this power and privilege. This chapter first presents the development of the Swedish (and Nordic) labour law model based on single-channel employee voice. Collective bargaining, industrial action, and codetermination as between employers and labour unions are next addressed. The structure of labour unions and the relationship to the members are then set out. Employee grievances are taken up as an example of individual employee voice in action, demonstrating the monopoly on power the unions have with respect to individual employee grievances. The lack of access to justice mechanisms that could enable individual employee voice, particularly with respect to issues of grievances, including questions such as discrimination, underscores the privilege that the labour law model in Sweden has created between the social partners.

Keywords: Employee voice; Collective bargaining; Sweden; Justice; Codetermination; Trade union; Collective agreement; Labour Court (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31123-9_6

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