From the Tidö Agreement, it appears that the requirements for labor immigrants will be tightened. As a starting point, the one who comes to Sweden should earn more than the median salary, which today is 37,100 kronor per month.
Now it will not be like that, but the government and SD have instead agreed that the salary requirement should correspond to 90 percent of the median salary.
We have agreed that this level going forward will be 90 percent, that is, not 100 percent as was the starting point in Tidö, says Minister for Migration Johan Forssell (The Moderate Party).
Today, the requirement is 80 percent of the median salary, or 29,680 kronor.
A "starting point”
The agreement can be interpreted as a success for The Liberals. This summer, Minister for Employment Johan Britz (The Liberals) came out and announced that he wanted to go against the Tidö Agreement on this very point.
We are on our way to introducing things that are not good for Sweden, he said to DN then.
He meant that with a salary requirement of 37,100 kronor, it would become very difficult for many companies to hire people from other countries that Sweden needs, for example, cooks.
Johan Forssell emphasizes now that what was established in Tidö was that the "starting point" would be 100 percent.
But it is just a starting point. We Moderates have not negotiated in the media, but I have always been keen to find a solution where we avoid a lot of new bureaucracy and a too high salary requirement.
Exception list
The Minister for Migration emphasizes that with the new salary requirement, there will be no need for a comprehensive exception list of 152 professions, which was previously developed.
Now we say that exceptions should be made more restrictively, but the government should still have the opportunity, says Forssell.
With this, we avoid a situation where we would need to have a very bureaucratic system with different exceptions that need to be interpreted and take time.
The new salary requirement will come into effect on June 1 next year.
