Laws & agreements
In the labor market, there are a number of laws and regulations that in various ways regulate the conditions for employees, and Saco-S signs agreements at central level with Swedish Agency for Government Employers regarding all government employees. In addition, a number of agreements are signed at the local level between the university and the local Saco-S association.
Laws and regulations
Within universities and colleges, there are a large number of laws and regulations to comply with, but also some collective agreements. These are collected on SULF's website (which is our contact association). You can reach them via the link below:
Laws, ordinances and agreements that are relevant within the university (in Swedish only)
However, the Higher Education Ordinance is also available in English
The Higher Education Ordinance (2014:1096)
Central agreements
At the central level, Saco-S signs an agreement with the Swedish Employers' Agency. These are basic collective agreements on, for example, pensions, general terms of employment, holidays, sickness compensation and parental leave. Via the link below, you can reach these agreements on Saco-S's website:
Agreements signed by Saco-S centrally (in Swedish only)
Local agreements
Via the internal website Employees, you as an employee have access to reach various local agreements at the university. As an employee, you have access to Employees and reach the said agreement via the link below:
https://lnu.se/medarbetare/anstalld-vid-lnu/styrdokument/ (in Swedish only)
Some of the agreements above are also available in English:
https://lnu.se/en/medarbetare/employed-at-lnu/steering-documents/
A reference to some of the most significant agreements above can be found under the headings SALARY and WORKING HOURS here on the Saco-S association's website. In addition, in times of change and savings, both within our institution and within the sector at large, we would like to draw attention to the fact that there is a local collective agreement on restructuring funds. Provisions for restructuring funds are made from a smaller part of the salary budget and are currently set aside in the order of two million kronor per year. Over the past five years, there have been accumulated restructuring funds of the order of ten million – but withdrawals during this time have mainly been in parity with the provisions that have been made. You can access the local agreement on transition funds via the link below (in Swedish):
Local collective agreement on transition funds at Linnaeus University