Healthcare, care and jobs – who carries the welfare state, and at what price.
30 articles
The LO unions could not agree to jointly pursue the demand for shorter working hours. The trade union Kommunal wanted to go further and is now choosing to pursu...
Following 465 incident reports at an elderly care home, Umeå's director of elderly care is leaving her post after ten years. Instead, she will lead an initiativ...
Young employees at Leos lekland in Stora Bernstorp raised the alarm about life-threatening deficiencies and subsequently lost their jobs. The company's own insp...
Around 40 employees from the food company Sunsalat gathered for a meeting with the union and the police in Åstorp. After the meeting, the staff are still left w...
Assistant nurses who reduce their working hours before retirement risk losing thousands of kronor due to a rule in the collective agreement. The newspaper Arbet...
85 assistant nurses have left Region Uppsala in just nine months. The trade union Kommunal warns that heavy patients and strained schedules mean staff cannot co...
Uppdrag granskning has shown that it is possible to receive ROT compensation without any work having been performed. The trade union Byggnads and business owner...
A Ukrainian man who came to a farm via an internship program was forced to work so hard that he lost over 20 kilos. Several interns at the same farm testify abo...
Only 32 percent of Sweden's municipalities have an up-to-date crisis plan for health and social care, shows Socialstyrelsen. For HVB homes for children and youn...
The City of Stockholm is investing 41 million kronor in work shoes for elderly care, preschools, and social services. The Social Democrats warn that the initiat...