New Case Law – Interpretation of the staffing agreement for workers

Collective agreement interpretation.

According to the staffing agreement for workers, hourly wages/monthly wages must correspond to the average earnings of comparable groups at the customer during periods of outplacements. When the outplaced worker has an hourly wage and comparable groups at the customer have a monthly wage, a divisor can be used to calculate the hourly wage. The Swedish Transport Workers’ Union claimed a declaratory judgement about which divisor that should be used under the staffing agreement. The Labour Court has found that the investigation does not support that the divisor under the staffing agreement should be in accordance with the claims for declaratory judgement, and that the general considerations about the staffing agreement do not entails that any of the claims can be sustained.

Read more here (in Swedish).