The establishment job reform, developed by unions and employers together with the state, was intended to help thousands of long-term unemployed people.
The measure was launched on January 1, 2024, after several years of work to get all the parts of the reform in place. But now statistics from the Swedish Public Employment Service, as compiled by the newspaper Kollega, show that up until October this year, only 84 people have an establishment job.
A failure, according to the trade union Unionen and the Swedish Public Employment Service, among others.
It is clearly a problem when only barely a hundred get the opportunity, when the group is still around 100,000. The big shortcoming is that it is not clear enough how the matching should work, says Martin Wästfelt, Unionen's head of negotiations, to the newspaper.
"We are not satisfied with the number of decisions. The agency is currently taking activities to strengthen our ability to use establishment jobs in contact with employers," says Emil Johansson, head of unit at the Swedish Public Employment Service, to Unionen's newspaper Kollega.
Establishment jobs are aimed at long-term unemployed people and should be full-time jobs for a maximum of two years and should usually lead to a permanent job. The salary is mostly paid by the state.
