Sweden to Tighten Labor Migration Laws to Tackle Exploitation of Foreign Workers

Sweden to Tighten Labor Migration Laws to Tackle Exploitation of Foreign Workers

The Swedish Ministry of Justice has declared that the public authority is working on a proposition for fixing the current guidelines on work movement in a bid to battle the double-dealing of unfamiliar laborers in the country.

As per an official statement of the Ministry, the public authority is set to introduce the proposition to the Council on Legislation, and the equivalent likewise anticipates changes in the law to bait and hold global experts while simultaneously countering the removal of talented specialists.

"It is essential to resolve the issue of unfamiliar specialists being taken advantage of in the Swedish work market. The authenticity of work relocation must be kept up with assuming extortion and foul play are forestalled. Simultaneously, work relocation to Sweden is essential to developing and creating organizations," the Ministry clarifies, while adding that these are the principal proposed corrections to the worker's movement laws, and more will be proposed soon.

The public authority's proposition, among others, predicts the accompanying changes:

• a business agreement ought to be needed for a work license to be given
• the Swedish Migration Agency ought to have the option to require a business to give data about the work traveler's business conditions; the individuals who will not give this data ought to be fined
• presentation of an upkeep necessity for relative migration connected to unfamiliar work
• licenses given based on bogus data ought to be considered as an offense of 'arranging of human sneaking'

Remarking on the new recommendations, the Swedish Minister for Integration and Migration Anders Ygeman said that Sweden should resolve the issue of unfamiliar laborers being taken advantage of in the country by businesses who push them to work for additional hours, give lower compensation, and give helpless working conditions.

"The way that individuals are given more unfortunate working conditions with lower compensation, longer working days, or a less fortunate workplace since they come from another nation conflicts with our most essential qualities and damages the Swedish model," Minister Ygeman said.

Govt Proposes More Changes to the Labor Migration Law to Attract Foreign Professionals

Additionally, the public authority of Sweden has proposed to the Council on Legislation to present another sort of home license which would be given to unfamiliar experts of specific fields, for whom the Swedish work market has a ton of need.

The new home license would be given for "certain profoundly qualified individuals so they can apply "for work or check out the conceivable outcomes of beginning a business in Sweden." The public authority likewise plans to attempt the essential measures so talented specialists are not expulsed in cases like minor instances of deviations from business conditions.

Assuming that the Council on Legislation supports the public authority's proposition, the administrative revisions will go into power on June 1, 2022.