Recently, the newspaper Kollega was able to show that until October this year, only 84 of Sweden's over 170,000 long-term unemployed had received an establishment job since the reform was launched in January 2024.
The reform was developed jointly by LO, Unionen and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, and the government has earmarked money for the initiative.
Due to the low number of new jobs, Minister of Labor Johan Britz (L) is now calling on the parties, who according to him need to "shift into second gear".
"The volumes we see are completely insufficient for establishment jobs to be part of breaking long-term unemployment - not least among many foreign-born people," he says in a comment and continues:
"There needs to be more establishment jobs, otherwise we need to rethink and focus on other measures."
Establishment jobs should be full-time jobs for a maximum of two years and should usually lead to permanent employment. The salary is mostly paid by the state.
