Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Part-Time Work Convention, 1994 (No. 175) - Sweden (Ratification: 2002)

Articles 9 and 10 of the Convention. Measures to facilitate access to part time work and to ensure voluntary transfer from full-time to part-time work or vice versa. The Committee recalls its previous comment in which it noted the comments of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), the Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees (TCO) and the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (SACO), according to which the Government’s decision to limit the number of days part-time workers may receive unemployment benefit from 150 to 75, places unfairly all the responsibility and cost of part-time unemployment on the individual worker. The Committee also recalls that the intention behind the 2008 changes to the unemployment insurance scheme was to increase pressure on part time workers to apply for full-time jobs. In its latest report, the Government indicates that concerns have been raised as to the effects of that reform, and as a result, the Government decided in September 2012 to commission an inquiry to analyse the effects of the limitation of the unemployment benefit for part-time workers to 75 days and to formulate proposals for new legislation. The Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any further developments in this respect and to communicate a copy of the report of the inquiry once it has been completed.