Promote an efficient wage formation process
The Swedish National Mediation Office is required to strive for an efficient process of wage formation, in part by supporting and maintaining the consensus on the labour market of the normative role of the international competitive sector in wage formation.
An efficient wage formation process
• is based on the normative role of the international competitive sector in wage formation
• combines increased real wages with a high level of employment
• results in fewer labour market conflicts
• enables relative wage changes
• contributes to the international competitiveness of Swedish trade and industry.
The Swedish National Mediation Office strives for an efficient process of wage formation not only through its mediation work, but also by consulting the parties on the labour market about the economic conditions for wage formation and through conferences, seminars and reports.
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The Swedish National Mediation Office and the Swedish labour market model (opens in new window)
The Swedish National Mediation Office annual report 2021
Collective agreements and minimum wages
Mediate in labour disputes
The Swedish National Mediation Office may appoint mediators if there is a risk of industrial action on the labour market of if the parties negotiating a collective agreement request this.
The Swedish National Mediation Offce appoints special mediators in disputes between employers and trade unions in their negotiations on wages and general employment conditions. The mediators therefore work on behalf of the Swedish National Mediation Offce, but are not its employees. Many of them have previously been negotiators or held senior positions at some of the labour market parties.
The Swedish National Mediation Offce also has four permanent mediators affliated to it. They are responsible for different geographical areas and are called in to assist in local disputes at company level. These are almost always conficts where a company does not want to sign a collective agreement with a trade union. The permanent mediators are affliated to the Swedish National Mediation Offce for one year at a time and undertake this assignment as secondary employment. Often they are, or have been, court lawyers.
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Report on industrial actions on the Swedish labour market 1965-2019
Oversee the provision of public statistics on wages and salaries
The Swedish National Mediation Office is responsible for the content and scope of the official wage statistics. The actual production of statistics is handled on behalf of SCB, Statistics Sweden. The material is processed, analysed and published by us. The statistics can roughly be broken down into three parts: economy wage statistics, wage structure statistics and EU statistics. Furthermore, the Swedish National Mediation Office is tasked with analysing wage trends from a gender equality perspective.
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Short term statistics of wages and salaries in different sectors
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Report on wages and gender pay gap 2020