Foreign Employers Must Register Temporary Workers with the Swedish Work Environment Authority

Foreign companies that post employees to work in Sweden for more than five days are liable to notify this to the Swedish Work Environment Authority. The law that regulates this comes into force on 1 July 2013.“All who work in Sweden shall have the right to a safe working environment. This also applies to those who come here to work on a temporary basis,” says Mikael Sjöberg, Director-General of the Swedish Work Environment Authority. The obligation to register so-called posted employees applies to employers, both inside or outside the EU, who send employees to Sweden to carry out a job