Institute for Social Private Law

Promotion of collective bargaining, control and sanctioning of working time, new directive on platform work – Nordic perspectives on current EU/EEA issues

Conference in Stockholm Wednesday 27 November 2024 at 10 – 16 h

Venue: Auditorium, Aula Magna, Stockholm University. Aula Magna is situated 5–6 minutes’ walk from metrostation Universitetet.

Languages: Scandinavian or, when needed, English (no interpretation).

Please register before: Monday 4 November 2024 at https://forms.gle/gqckwcC6NAXsncrQ6

The number of places is restricted.

PROGRAM

9.30 – 10.00 Registration, coffee

10.00             Opening remarks

Kerstin Ahlberg the Institute for Social Private Law
Dan Grannas
Ministry of Labour

10.10             The status of the collective agreement in EU law – theory, practice and
rhetoric

Chairs:           Kerstin Ahlberg/Niklas Bruun

Speaker:        Niklas Bruun, Hanken and Stockholm university

Comments:    Mette Søsted Hemme, Aarhus universitet (TBC), och Samuli Hiilesniemi, SAK and University of Helsinki

Speaker:        Kerstin Ahlberg, the Institute for Social Private Law

Comments:    Jeanette Grenfors, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions

11.25             European Framework agreements from the Perspective of the Eastern European Countries
Lukasz Pisarczyk,
University of Silesia

11.45 – 12.45 Lunch

12.45             Control and sanctioning of working time in Sweden, Norway, Denmark
and Finland

Chair             Sabina Hellborg, Stockholm University

Speakers.       Erik Sjödin, Stockholm University
Melanie Regine Hack, University of Bergen
Jari Murto, University of Helsinki
Mette Søsted Hemme, Aarhus University

14.1514.45 Coffee

14.45             The directive on platform work – a colloquy on the challenges of the Nordic model

Chair:             Kerstin Ahlberg

Speaker:        Niklas Selberg, Lund University

Panel:            Representatives of social partners and Government offices

16.00 – 16.15 Closing remarks