Mia Rönnmar

The managerial prerogative and the employee's duty to work: a comparative study of functional flexibility in working life

This paper presents a discussion of the general reasons for conducting comparative research, the need for a socio-legal functional approach and the motives for subjecting Swedish, English and German labour law to study. Anna Christensens theory of the normative field of law is discussed and applied to the field of comparative labour law research. The focus of the research is the legal regulation of the managerial prerogative (especially the employers right to direct and allocate work) in the light of the increasing trend towards greater flexibility in employment.

The Regulation of Temporary Agency Work in Sweden and the Impact of the (2008/104/EC) Directive

The temporary Agency Work directive,1 hereinafter the directive, was adopted in November 2008 after more than thirty years of failed Ec legislative and social dialogue attempts.2 The aim of this article is to discuss the regulation of temporary agency work in sweden in general and the legal impact and future implementation of the directive.3 Even though there has been a rapid growth of temporary agency work in sweden, today it still accounts for only about 1 percent of the entire labour force.4

Free movement of services vs national labour law and industrial relations systems: understanding the Laval case from a Swedish and Nordic perspective

European integration, the internal market and free movement of persons and services are important aspects of EC labour law and EU industrial relations. As a result of EU enlargement and the emphasis on free movement within the EU, the problems of posting of workers, low-wage competition and social dumping are high on the agenda. This is illustrated by the epochal and much-debated Laval and Viking cases from the European Court of Justice (ECJ).