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- Larsson, Per, 1969-
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Skyddet för visselblåsare i arbetslivet : en konstitutionell och arbetsrättslig studie
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of the study is to contribute to the knowledge on the protection of employees who report or disclose wrongdoings at work. To that end, different legal rules are analysed and discussed; the conflict and interaction between constitutional, European and labour law regulation is of particular interest. The more specific research questions are i) how different rules that protect whistleblowers interact with each other, ii) if there are common patterns in the regulation in the different areas of law, iii) how duties to report wrongdoings relate to the protection of reporters and iv) if the current regulation to protect work place whistleblowers is appropriate.One conclusion from the study is that the labour law protection of whistleblowers increasingly stems from constitutional law, including the constitutionally anchored European convention; the current legal development can be described as a constitutionalisation process of labour law. As the importance of constitutional law in labour disputes increases, questions about interpretation, delimitation and application of constitutional law in labour disputes require more theoretical and methodological attention.Another conclusion from the study is that the traditional disparity between the protection in the public and the private sector is decreasing. This is the result of three different interacting developments. Firstly, the legislator has expanded the scope of the protection for the constitutional freedom to provide information for publication (meddelarfrihet) not only to apply in strictly public organisations, but also in municipal corporations and some other organisations of public character. Secondly, the Labour Court has in its case law also protected private sector whistleblowers, particularly when public financing of a private organisation or another important public interest is at stake. Thirdly, the European Court has taken the view that private sector whistleblowers also should be guaranteed freedom of speech protection. The convergence of the degree of protection provided in the public and private sector can be explained by the increased attention to protection of third parties and the public at large from harm resulting from wrongdoings at work, whether in public or private sector.The protection of whistleblowers in Swedish law is overall strong and appropriate. There are nevertheless some weaknesses in the protection. One flaw is that while the employment protection is strong, the labour law protection against retaliation during employment is weaker; even if the principle that the employer organises and leads the work has its limits in the principle of good labour market practice (god sed på arbetsmarknaden), the application of the principle of good labour market practice is limited and it is uncertain under what circumstances non-material damages can be awarded to a whistleblower who has suffered reprisals. Another weakness in the protection of whistleblowers is that there are frail protections against retaliation from co-workers.Legislation and proposals for legislation to protect whistleblowers have increased. There is however a risk that these new initiatives create increased legal ambiguity, notwithstanding the aim to strengthen the protection; a result of these initiatives may therefore unfortunately be that while the protection is getting stronger on paper, the initiatives result in increased legal uncertainty.
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- Svensson, Måns, et al.
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Migrantarbetare inom jordbruket – arbetsmiljö och arbetsvillkor
- 2015
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- I såväl media som inom myndigheter och organisationer har det under de senaste åren i allt högre grad uppmärksammats att migrerande arbetskraft inom jordbruket/den gröna näringen eventuellt används på ett sätt som kan strida mot arbetsrättsliga och sociala regleringar.Avsikten med föreliggande studie är framförallt att sammanställa den forskning som finns avseende olika arbetslivs- och arbetsmiljöaspekter på migrantarbete inom den gröna näringen med fokus på säsongsarbete. Relevant forskning på området har sökts i olika databaser; och av en uppföljning av referenslistor i artiklar och böcker. På grund av den flerdimensionella problematiken kring migrantarbetet inom den gröna sektorn har en mångdisciplinär forskargrupp satts samman för studien. Redan på ett tidigt stadium stod det emellertid klart att det inte existerar någon mer omfattande svensk forskning på området vilket innebär att mycket av de resonemang som förs i den här skriften vilar på internationella erfarenheter.Det finns god grund i den internationella forskningen och genom intervjuer med representanter för svenska organisationer och myndigheter att anta att många migrantarbetare inom den gröna näringen i Sverige lever och arbetar under oacceptabla förhållanden - bortom rättslig kontroll och insyn. Det handlar bland annat om undermåliga bostäder och bristande hygien, ökad olycksrisk, exponering för hälsovådliga kemikalier, ergonomiska problem, risk för hot och våld, diskriminering, trakasserier, brist på stöd från samhället såsom sjukvård och rättshjälp, långa arbetstider och låg lön.Det faktum att problematiken potentiellt är svårartad gör att kunskapsbristen i Sverige blir särskilt allvarlig – ny och fördjupad forskning behövs. Dessutom torde behovet av insatser från myndigheter och organisationer vara stort.
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- Westregård, Annamaria
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Digital collaborative platforms: A challenge for both the legislator and the social partners in the Nordic model
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper focuses on the specific problems in the labour and social security legislation as it relates to crowdworkers in the digitalizes new economy, analyzing their place in labour market, and especially in the collective agreements which are the standard means of regulating working conditions in the Nordic model. Sweden has a binary system where a performing party is as either an employee or self-employed.The law on working and employment conditions offers only limited protection those on short, fixed-term contracts; instead, it is social partners that have improved crowdworkers’ conditions in some industries by using collective bargaining. However, there are no collective agreements in the digital economy, or indeed for platform entrepreneurs. The complications of the parties’ positions will be analyzed, especially as platforms do not consider themselves to be employers, but rather coordinators of the self-employed.
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