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The unfair treatment of an employee who is on parental leave is prohibited under the Parental Leave Act ('the Act'). This prohibition includes unfair treatment relating to pay and other employment terms for reasons connected with parental leave.

An IT-consulting company (the "Company") claimed at the District Court that the Court should prohibit a former employee (the "Employee") from running a certain business with a conditional fine and also claimed (i) damages due to breach of the non-compete obligation that the Employee had entered into in connection with the signing of the employment contract, and (ii) damages due to breach of the Protection of Trade Secrets Act.

Two Muslim women, who wore head cloths, were employed as temporary receptionists at a non-profit sports club (the "Sports Club").

The Ministry of Employment is proposing a new Act on European Works Councils which will replace the current act from 6 June 2011.

A company (the "Company") which conducted a cleaning operation had, since the cleaning assignments had decreased, been affected by shortage of work which resulted in four employees being made redundant.

A company (the "Company") had been undertaking real estate development projects and its subsidiary (the "Subsidiary") had been contracted to perform building operations in relation to these development projects.

Amendments have been made to the Foreign Posting Employees Act and to the Employment (Co-Determination in the Workplace) Act following the European Court of Justice ruling in the "Laval" case (C-341/05).

Proposed amendments to better protect foreign national workers in Sweden.

The current Swedish right of priority legislation, which is set forth in the Right of Priority Act (SFS 1970:979) was amended on 1 January 2004. The new legislation has been preceded by considerable disunion in the Swedish Parliament with several controversial questions being raised. So what are the reasons for changing the legislation?

När arbetsgivare genomför bakgrundskontroller av arbetssökande måste de navigera komplexa dataskyddsregler. Ett nytt EU-domstolsavgörande från 2026 klargör att tillgång till offentlig information inte automatiskt ger rätt att använda den i rekryteringsprocesser, särskilt när det gäller brottmålsdomar och känsliga personuppgifter.

In a far-reaching reform, the Employment Protection Act, a cornerstone of Swedish Employment Law that governs termination of employment and other protection for employees, is changing.

Following our webcasts in North America and Europe on the future of pay transparency, we answer common questions on pay transparency in the U.S. and Europe, including the EU Pay Transparency Directive.