There are numerous recruitment and search agencies that can assist your company in finding suitable staff at all levels of business, whether on temporary or permanent contracts.
Stockholm Business Region Development has useful information along with excellent contacts in the recruitment industry and a professional business services sector that can assist you with your company’s specific labor market related issues.
Employing staff
There are many employment forms in Sweden, which offers flexibility to employers. Trial or probationary periods are commonly used when employing staff. There are clear rules for redundancy and termination, and short standardized employment contracts are often used.
Stockholm Business Region Development can help you establish contact with recruitment agencies specialized in finding personnel for a broad range of industries. Our team can refer you to experts on Swedish labor law.
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Social security and pensions
Sweden offers a framework of publicly funded social provisions that includes health care, parental allowance, and employment-related insurance. The total cost of hiring skilled employees is competitive by international comparison.
The Swedish national pension and insurance system is often combined with insurance plans that are linked to occupations.
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Tax relief for key foreign employees
Sweden offers special income tax relief to encourage highly skilled people, such as international executives, experts, researchers and others with special skills, to work in Sweden.
The tax relief scheme makes it easier for foreign-owned and domestic companies to attract experts and other key people from abroad to work in Sweden.
The tax relief is motivated by the fact that foreign experts and others who live in Sweden for short periods cannot gain full advantage from Sweden’s social welfare and pension system.
In 2001–2009, more than 2,500 foreign experts were granted tax relief.
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Source: Invest Sweden