Updated 2016-08-23 16:47. Published 2016-08-23 15:42
The proposed health exchange will will not be included in the government’s autumn budget. The announcement gives the Minister for Social Annika Strandhäll on Tuesday.
“We pull back simply in favor of the proposal that parties have, “she said during a press conference. “Now we take it off the table.”
Under the proposal employer to have accounted for 25 percent of the cost of an employee who is on sick leave for more than 90 days.
the background was the rising sick but since last autumn, the increase in new sickness slowed down. The government’s proposal came not only to criticism from industry but also from the LO and the Left, who argued that such a law would make it more difficult for people with a history of being hired.
According to Annika Strandhäll was the ulterior motive all the time to bring about a more active prevention efforts to reduce sick leave, something social partners now carry out, to avoid the law.
“It’s all about a real level of ambition when it comes to work for better health and low morbidity in the workplace, “she says.
Among other Swedish Enterprise’s vice president Per Jeppsson has described the government’s methods as a form of extortion.
“maybe there someone who would like to describe it that way,” says Annika Strandhäll but recalls that sick accelerated since 2010. “When can a government sit down and wait times will get better or you act. “
Annika Strandhäll says that the government will continue to work to reduce sick leave in the fall.
“We will to further actions aimed primarily to health care,” she says.
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