Collective bargaining agreement interpretation in practice: Which of two collective bargaining agreements should be applied?

Insights|April 28, 2025

In this episode of Hire&Fire, Sofia Andersson and Hanna Elveros discuss the Swedish Labor Court’s recent judgement AD 2025 no 17.

The question the Labor Court had to decide this time was which of the two collective bargaining agreements by which the employer was bound should be applied to work as a flag guard. The Labor Court’s method of interpreting the collective bargaining agreement is familiar from previous case law, but the ruling shows that the question of collective bargaining agreement interpretation and which conditions a company should apply to which workers is not always straightforward.

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