The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Public Administration And Defence Public Administration And Defence; Compulsory Social Security Administration Of The State And The Economic And Social Policy Of The Community 84.1 - Administration of the State and the economic and social policy of the community
1,000 - 1,100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 November 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The Swedish Migration Agency announced in November 2017 an initiative to reduce around 1,000 jobs within asylum assessment tasks by the second half of 2018. In November 2017 the number of employees working in asylum assessment was around 2,000, and the Agency's final objective is 770. Cuts will be made all across the country, where possible through retirements and the non-renewal of temporary contracts. The reduction is due to the estimated significant decrease in the number of asylum seekers in upcoming years, and the correspondingly scaled down budget of the Agency. As previosuly reported, among the first local-level negotiations of this wave of dismissals 111 jobs were cut in Halland and Västra Götaland counties.
Many asylum applications dating back to 2015 have still been congesting the system and asylum assessment has been under-resourced, resulting in high work intensity, overtime and sick leaves for employees.
Sources
10 November 2017: svt.se
9 November 2017: Company press release
10 November 2017: Skanska Dagbladet
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Swedish Migration Agency, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 93385, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93385.
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