Evaluation of the national strategy against workplace crime

The plan identifies wage dumping, economic crime and exploitation as central threats today and requires effective monitoring of organised economic crime. The counter-proposal's requirement that the strategy against workplace crime is implemented, evaluated and updated continuously is precisely such monitoring. Plugging the space to exploit people's vulnerable position is an explicit goal in the party programme.

• combat workplace crimedecisive»Lönedumpning, ekonomisk brottslighet och utnyttjande är centrala hot idag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Wage dumping, economic crime and exploitation are central threats today.”
• effective monitoring of economic crime»Det behövs en effektiv uppföljning av den organiserade« (party programme ↗)“Effective monitoring of organised”
• developed labour law»Vi vill skapa tryggare jobb genom att utveckla arbetsrätten.« (party programme ↗)“We want to create safer jobs by developing labour law.”
• collective agreements in procurement»Vänsterpartiet ställer krav på kollektivavtal vid offentliga upphandlingar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Left Party demands collective agreements in public procurement.”

The plan demands action against labor crime and establishes that it must not exist on the Swedish labor market. That the strategy against labor crime is implemented, evaluated, and continuously updated is a direct means to that commitment. The plan also sets the fight against crime on the labor market as its own goal.

• no labor crimedecisive»Arbetslivs kriminalitet ska inte finnas på svensk arbetsmarknad och offentliga arbetsgivare och upphandlare ska vara föredömen i att verka för en sund konkurrens.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Labor crime shall not exist on the Swedish labor market and public employers and procurers shall be leaders in working for fair competition.”
• combated labor crime»Bekämpande av kriminalitet på arbetsmarknaden.« (party programme ↗)“Fighting crime on the labor market.”
• action against fraud»Krafttag mot arbetslivskriminaliteten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Action against labor crime.”
• safe workplaces»Motverkande av kriminalitet, våld och hot på arbetsplatserna.« (party programme ↗)“Prevention of crime, violence and threats at workplaces.”

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The plan requires strong action against employers who exploit foreign labour and do not respect labour rights or collective agreements, and wants to strengthen work against the criminal economy and interagency cooperation. That the strategy against workplace crime is implemented, evaluated and continuously updated is a tool to realise this. The plan does not state its position on the strategy as such, which is why the conclusion is derived.

• against exploitation of labourdecisive»Det krävs krafttag mot arbetsgivare som exploaterar utländsk« (party programme ↗)“Strong action against employers who exploit foreign”
• against criminal economy»Vi vill också stärka arbetet mot den kriminella ekonomin.« (party programme ↗)“We also want to strengthen work against the criminal economy.”
• strengthened interagency cooperation»stoppa finansieringen av de kriminella gängen genom att stärka myndighetssamverkan« (2022 manifesto ↗)“stop funding of criminal gangs by strengthening interagency cooperation”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan requires action against crime that affects businesses and that society shall not give way to organized criminality, of which workplace crime is a part. That the strategy against workplace crime is implemented, evaluated and updated continuously is a means for that commitment. The plan says nothing about the strategy as such, so the support is weakly derived.

• action against crime against businessesdecisive»en pålitlig infrastruktur i hela landet, satsningar på forskning och utveckling och krafttag mot brott emot företag« (2022 manifesto ↗)“a reliable infrastructure throughout the country, investments in research and development and action against crime against businesses”
• combat organized criminality»Samhället ska inte vika sig för gängen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Society shall not give way to gangs.”
• prevent and deter»Kriminalpolitiken ska därför både förebygga och avskräcka från brott, stödja brottsdrabbade och stimulera dem som har begått olagliga handlingar till en ny livssituation utan brottslighet.« (party programme ↗)“Criminal policy shall therefore both prevent and deter from crime, support crime victims and encourage those who have committed illegal acts to a new situation without criminality.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan establishes that laws and regulations shall safeguard competition on equal terms and that the legal system's ability and efficiency need to be improved, and that more needs to be done to prevent labour migration from being abused for undeclared work. That the strategy against workplace crime is carried out, evaluated and updated continuously serves the same purposes. The plan does not, however, address the strategy as such, so the support is derived.

• prevent undeclared workdecisive»Mer behöver göras för att systemet för arbetskraftsinvandring inte ska missbrukas för till exempel svartjobb.« (party programme ↗)“More needs to be done to prevent the system for labour migration from being abused for, for example, undeclared work.”
• competition on equal terms»Lagar och regler ska slå vakt om äganderätt, konkurrens på lika villkor, rättssäkerhet och att enskilda människor har likvärdiga och goda möjligheter att nå sina livsmål.« (party programme ↗)“Laws and regulations shall safeguard property rights, competition on equal terms, legal certainty and that individual people have equivalent and good opportunities to achieve their life goals.”
• more efficient legal system»Rättsväsendets förmåga och effektivitet behöver förbättras så att handläggningstiderna kortas, fler brott anmäls och klaras upp samt färre brottsanmälningar avskrivs.« (party programme ↗)“The legal system's ability and efficiency need to be improved so that processing times are shortened, more crimes are reported and solved and fewer crime reports are written off.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan makes evaluation, cost tracking and quality control important political tasks, which directly supports the requirement that the strategy against workplace crime is implemented, evaluated and regularly updated. The plan also requires that unfair competition is countered and that all crimes are prosecuted effectively and without exception. Workplace crime moreover undermines the stable institutions and ethical conduct that the plan sees as conditions for market economy.

• tracking and evaluationdecisive»kostnadsuppföljning och kvalitetskontroll är därför viktiga politiska uppgifter.« (party programme ↗)“cost tracking and quality control are therefore important political tasks.”
• against unfair competition»konkurrenspolitik motverkar oligopol, monopol och illojal konkurrens.« (party programme ↗)“competition policy counters oligopoly, monopoly and unfair competition.”
• all crimes shall be prosecuted»Alla brott ska effektivt och utan undantag beivras« (party programme ↗)“All crimes shall be prosecuted effectively and without exception”
• ethical conduct in the economy»En väl fungerande marknadsekonomi förutsätter en effektiv konkurrens, stabila institutioner« (party programme ↗)“A well-functioning market economy requires effective competition, stable institutions”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan identifies systematic fraud and organized crime in working life as a serious problem and wants to increase penalties for benefit fraud and stop billions from disappearing to fraudsters and criminals. The plan also principally commits to evaluating, reconsidering and improving what has been implemented. For the strategy against occupational crime to be implemented, evaluated and updated continuously is thus in line with the plan.

• combat organized frauddecisive»Hederskultur, organiserad brottslighet, penningtvätt och systematiskt bidragsfusk.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Honour culture, organized crime, money laundering and systematic benefit fraud.”
• stop fraud with tax money(2022 manifesto)
• evaluate implemented reforms»beredskap för att utvärdera, ompröva, förändra och förbättra« (party programme ↗)“readiness to evaluate, reconsider, change and improve”
• increased penalties for fraud»Skärpa straffen för bidragsbrott« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Increase penalties for benefit fraud”

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The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan demands that every public investment shall show clear results, which is exactly what ongoing evaluation and updating of a strategy entails. Content-wise, the plan wants to reduce the import of cheap labour to low-skilled occupations and tighten penalties for fraud in welfare systems, which is the core of workplace criminality. The strategy as such is not mentioned, so the conclusion is derived.

• evaluation of public investmentsdecisive»Begära tydliga resultat för varje offentlig satsning« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Demand clear results for every public investment”
• labour market test against exploitation»För arbetstillstånd behöver Sverige införa en riktig arbetsmarknadsprövning för att förhindra att arbetsgivare importerar billig arbetskraft från fattiga länder för att utföra yrken som kräver liten eller ingen utbildning.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“For work permits Sweden needs to implement a proper labour market test to prevent employers from importing cheap labour from poor countries to perform occupations that require little or no education.”
• tightened measures against fraud»Skärpa straffen för fusk inom välfärdssystemen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tighten penalties for fraud in welfare systems”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.